Sarah Sparks
Assistant Editor at Education Week
A New Orleans native and Washington D.C.-area education journalist, I cover research for Education Week. Retweets do not constitute endorsement of opinions.
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2 weeks ago |
edweek.org | Sarah Sparks
Jazzmyne Townsend tries to work out at least twice a week, but she often gets her daily exercise long before she hits the gym. A language arts instructional coach and special education inclusion teacher at Stanton Elementary School in the District of Columbia, Townsend treks from classroom to classroom, across the building, and up and down three flights of stairs. “I’ve never been a teacher who was comfortable just instructing and then going to sit down at a desk,” Townsend said.
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2 weeks ago |
edweek.org | Sarah Sparks
Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a new report on elementary teacher preparation nationwide released today by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a nonprofit research and policy group that has studied teacher-preparation programs since 2006.
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3 weeks ago |
edweek.org | Sarah Sparks
“Avoid the passive voice”is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children develop reading comprehension.
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4 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Sarah Sparks
2 hours agoTufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was taken into custody on Tuesday in Somerville, Massachusetts, was whisked quickly out of the state before a federal judge issued an order limiting the government's ability to move her. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said her visa was one of 300 or more that his department has revoked.
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4 weeks ago |
edweek.org | Sarah Sparks
On a bright October afternoon, Esmeralda Orozco rapidly filled pages of notes as Priscilla Aguilar, a senior at San Diego State University majoring in education, worked to get Castle Park High School students excited about triangles. While the students recorded different ways to prove similarity via angles and sides, Orozco captured Aguilar’s timing: the ways she moved around the packed classroom, the questions she asked, the pointer she gave students.
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“Teaching already is a high-stress job—it’s relentless—and then when you’re a sub, it’s just compounded because you are working usually in new environments,” said Terrie St. Michel, author, 30-year veteran sub. How do schools find people ready for that? https://t.co/5AwtjY6poa
That flu bug going around your school? Yup, Omicron could make it worse for kids. https://t.co/QgRJO14uU5
Why is a mask less enforceable than other parts of a school dress code? https://t.co/koAq1oFM2N
