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Professor Sheila Valencia offers tips to help teachers give more effective textbook reading assignments to middle and high school students.

Keisha Scarlett (EdD '18), chief of equity, partnerships and engagement at Seattle Public Schools, says a commitment to equity must be a chief priority as plans are made to reopening schools.

Professor Virginia Berninger discusses whether taking time to teach kids handwriting and cursive in school still has value.

In this essay, Maggie Beneke, assistant professor at the UW College of Education,  proposes the need for intersectional, multiplane qualitative data generation in studying young children’s disability and race conceptualizations to account for the ways intersecting, oppressive ideologies are perpetuated in young children’s worlds. In this essay, Beneke briefly describe sand critiques extant data generation practices, concluding with possibilities for future investigations.

Teacher EDucation by Design, created by College of Education faculty and doctoral students, brings together educators to foster ongoing professional development.

Jennifer Lee Hoffman, associate professor in Educational Foundations, Leadership & Policy and faculty member at the Center for Leadership in Athletics, co-wrote an article published in the Wiley Online Library titled, "What if amateurism turned into entrepreneurialism?" Lee Hoffman and her co-author discuss the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in NCAA v. Alston, which upends the long-held practice of treating college athletes as unpaid amateurs. The ruling comes at a time when state legislation across the country is opening doors for new economic opportunities for college athletes, primarily their ability to market their name, image and likeness. The authors argue that the ruling provides an opportunity for campus leaders in athletics and in universities to think about the opportunities they provide for all students, including college athletes, to become entrepreneurs in a new economy.

The work of Professor Meredith Honig and the University of Washington’s District Leadership Design Lab is cited in helping develop principals as instructional leaders.

Professor Ann Ishimaru discussed going from “best” practices to “next” practices in parent-school engagement as a featured speaker during a conference for Washington State teachers, parents and education advocates.

Professor Virginia Berninger comments on the importance of teaching young children to type as well as learn handwriting.

Professor Elizabeth West comments on her new research finding that children from ethnically and culturally diverse families are not well represented in autism research.