SPARC Center
@sparccenter.bsky.social
The SPARC Center at @airinforms.bsky.social conducts research & leads systemic change to strengthen the special educator workforce. Visit us at https://sparccenter.org/!
Nov 14 Session:
💡Piloting the Revealing Special Educators’ Conditions for Teaching Measure: A Psychometric Evaluation with a Nationally Representative Sample with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 11–11:50 am
📍 Washington Park 2
💡Piloting the Revealing Special Educators’ Conditions for Teaching Measure: A Psychometric Evaluation with a Nationally Representative Sample with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 11–11:50 am
📍 Washington Park 2
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Nov 14 Session:
💡Piloting the Revealing Special Educators’ Conditions for Teaching Measure: A Psychometric Evaluation with a Nationally Representative Sample with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 11–11:50 am
📍 Washington Park 2
💡Piloting the Revealing Special Educators’ Conditions for Teaching Measure: A Psychometric Evaluation with a Nationally Representative Sample with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 11–11:50 am
📍 Washington Park 2
Nov 13 Sessions Continued:
💡A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Dual-Certification in Special Education and General Education (Session: Multiple Paper 41) with @afgilmour.bsky.social
🕐️ 3–3:50 pm
📍 Century A
💡A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Dual-Certification in Special Education and General Education (Session: Multiple Paper 41) with @afgilmour.bsky.social
🕐️ 3–3:50 pm
📍 Century A
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Nov 13 Sessions Continued:
💡A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Dual-Certification in Special Education and General Education (Session: Multiple Paper 41) with @afgilmour.bsky.social
🕐️ 3–3:50 pm
📍 Century A
💡A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Dual-Certification in Special Education and General Education (Session: Multiple Paper 41) with @afgilmour.bsky.social
🕐️ 3–3:50 pm
📍 Century A
Nov 13 Sessions Continued:
💡Multiple Lenses on Special Educators’ Work: Exploring the Complexity and Multidimensionality of Special Education Teaching Quality with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐 Thursday 11/13 from 3:00–3:50 pm
📍 Pershing Place West
💡Multiple Lenses on Special Educators’ Work: Exploring the Complexity and Multidimensionality of Special Education Teaching Quality with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐 Thursday 11/13 from 3:00–3:50 pm
📍 Pershing Place West
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Nov 13 Sessions Continued:
💡Multiple Lenses on Special Educators’ Work: Exploring the Complexity and Multidimensionality of Special Education Teaching Quality with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐 Thursday 11/13 from 3:00–3:50 pm
📍 Pershing Place West
💡Multiple Lenses on Special Educators’ Work: Exploring the Complexity and Multidimensionality of Special Education Teaching Quality with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐 Thursday 11/13 from 3:00–3:50 pm
📍 Pershing Place West
Nov 13 Sessions Continued:
💡Project SUSTAIN: Developing a Collaborative Intervention for Special Educators’ Conditions for Teaching with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 11–11:50 am
📍 Penn Valley
💡Project SUSTAIN: Developing a Collaborative Intervention for Special Educators’ Conditions for Teaching with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 11–11:50 am
📍 Penn Valley
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Nov 13 Sessions Continued:
💡Project SUSTAIN: Developing a Collaborative Intervention for Special Educators’ Conditions for Teaching with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 11–11:50 am
📍 Penn Valley
💡Project SUSTAIN: Developing a Collaborative Intervention for Special Educators’ Conditions for Teaching with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 11–11:50 am
📍 Penn Valley
Nov 13 Sessions Continued:
💡Examining the Special Education Workforce through Cross-State Analysis with @lmasonwms.bsky.social and @afgilmour.bsky.social
🕐️ 10–10:50 am
💡Examining the Special Education Workforce through Cross-State Analysis with @lmasonwms.bsky.social and @afgilmour.bsky.social
🕐️ 10–10:50 am
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Nov 13 Sessions Continued:
💡Examining the Special Education Workforce through Cross-State Analysis with @lmasonwms.bsky.social and @afgilmour.bsky.social
🕐️ 10–10:50 am
💡Examining the Special Education Workforce through Cross-State Analysis with @lmasonwms.bsky.social and @afgilmour.bsky.social
🕐️ 10–10:50 am
Nov 13 Sessions:
💡Overwork in Special Education: A Qualitative Analysis of Teachers’ Perspectives with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 8–8:50 am
📍 Washington Park 3
💡Keynote Panel: Preparing Special Educators in a Time of Uncertainty with Lynn Holdheide
🕐️ 9–9:50 am
💡Overwork in Special Education: A Qualitative Analysis of Teachers’ Perspectives with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 8–8:50 am
📍 Washington Park 3
💡Keynote Panel: Preparing Special Educators in a Time of Uncertainty with Lynn Holdheide
🕐️ 9–9:50 am
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Nov 13 Sessions:
💡Overwork in Special Education: A Qualitative Analysis of Teachers’ Perspectives with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 8–8:50 am
📍 Washington Park 3
💡Keynote Panel: Preparing Special Educators in a Time of Uncertainty with Lynn Holdheide
🕐️ 9–9:50 am
💡Overwork in Special Education: A Qualitative Analysis of Teachers’ Perspectives with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 8–8:50 am
📍 Washington Park 3
💡Keynote Panel: Preparing Special Educators in a Time of Uncertainty with Lynn Holdheide
🕐️ 9–9:50 am
Nov 12 Sessions:
💡Publishing and Reviewing for Teacher Education and Special Education Journal with LaRon Scott and @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐 1-1:50pm
📍 Century B
💡Special Educators’ Working Conditions and Building Family Relationships: A Missing Link?
🕐️ 1–1:50pm
📍 Pershing Place East
💡Publishing and Reviewing for Teacher Education and Special Education Journal with LaRon Scott and @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐 1-1:50pm
📍 Century B
💡Special Educators’ Working Conditions and Building Family Relationships: A Missing Link?
🕐️ 1–1:50pm
📍 Pershing Place East
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Nov 12 Sessions:
💡Publishing and Reviewing for Teacher Education and Special Education Journal with LaRon Scott and @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐 1-1:50pm
📍 Century B
💡Special Educators’ Working Conditions and Building Family Relationships: A Missing Link?
🕐️ 1–1:50pm
📍 Pershing Place East
💡Publishing and Reviewing for Teacher Education and Special Education Journal with LaRon Scott and @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐 1-1:50pm
📍 Century B
💡Special Educators’ Working Conditions and Building Family Relationships: A Missing Link?
🕐️ 1–1:50pm
📍 Pershing Place East
Our results underscore the importance of considering #SpecialEducation staffing challenges across states and contexts. Read the full paper here: sparccenter.org/research-fin...
The Composition, Distribution, and Stability of the Special Education Teacher Workforce in Seven States | SPARC Center
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November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Our results underscore the importance of considering #SpecialEducation staffing challenges across states and contexts. Read the full paper here: sparccenter.org/research-fin...
➡️ Patterns of turnover varied across school types, with the highest turnover in charter schools.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
➡️ Patterns of turnover varied across school types, with the highest turnover in charter schools.
➡️ Special education teacher turnover rates were generally higher in higher-poverty schools.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
➡️ Special education teacher turnover rates were generally higher in higher-poverty schools.
➡️After the first year of the pandemic, special education teacher attrition rates declined, spiked, and then stabilized.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
➡️After the first year of the pandemic, special education teacher attrition rates declined, spiked, and then stabilized.
➡️ In most states, special education teacher attrition rates were higher than attrition rates for other teachers.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
➡️ In most states, special education teacher attrition rates were higher than attrition rates for other teachers.
➡️ States varied considerably in how they identify special education teachers in their data and how they staff special education, leading to different staffing ratios.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
➡️ States varied considerably in how they identify special education teachers in their data and how they staff special education, leading to different staffing ratios.
We are grateful to our partner states for their collaboration in this important work. We look forward to continuing our research in the year ahead.
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We are grateful to our partner states for their collaboration in this important work. We look forward to continuing our research in the year ahead.
⭐Resource #3: An interactive dashboard exploring the key dimensions of the special education teacher workforce across all our partner states: sparccenter.org/data-explore...
SPARC Data Explorer | SPARC Center
sparccenter.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
⭐Resource #3: An interactive dashboard exploring the key dimensions of the special education teacher workforce across all our partner states: sparccenter.org/data-explore...
⭐Resource #2: Eight SPARC Fact Sheets with state-specific summaries: sparccenter.org/resources/sp...
Special Education Teacher Workforce Across Seven States: Key Insights from the SPARC Center's Multi-State Analysis | SPARC Center
sparccenter.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
⭐Resource #2: Eight SPARC Fact Sheets with state-specific summaries: sparccenter.org/resources/sp...
⭐Resource #1: A Working Paper with details of our cross-state analysis of the special education teacher workforce: sparccenter.org/research-fin...
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
⭐Resource #1: A Working Paper with details of our cross-state analysis of the special education teacher workforce: sparccenter.org/research-fin...
✨To better serve students with disabilities, it’s critical to understand and address the challenges facing the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce. The SPARC Center is committed to contributing to this body of research.
October 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
✨To better serve students with disabilities, it’s critical to understand and address the challenges facing the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce. The SPARC Center is committed to contributing to this body of research.
Increasing teacher base pay and incentivizing working in hard-to-staff locations and positions can work. SPARC Center Directors @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @afgilmour.bsky.social, and their colleagues explored such policies in Hawai‘i: caldercenter.org/publications...
The Impact of a $10,000 Bonus on Special Education Teacher Shortages in Hawai'i | CALDER Center
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October 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Increasing teacher base pay and incentivizing working in hard-to-staff locations and positions can work. SPARC Center Directors @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @afgilmour.bsky.social, and their colleagues explored such policies in Hawai‘i: caldercenter.org/publications...
More needs to be done to have a representative #SpecialEducation teacher workforce, as explored by @edutuan.bsky.social, @lmasonwms.bsky.social, & @lizbettini.bsky.social in this paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
More needs to be done to have a representative #SpecialEducation teacher workforce, as explored by @edutuan.bsky.social, @lmasonwms.bsky.social, & @lizbettini.bsky.social in this paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...