Tina Starks

Specialist, Literacy

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Tina Starks
A Quote That Inspires Me

“When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”

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About

Tina (she/her/hers) is a Literacy Specialist at Student Achievement Partners, where she works in community with inspiring colleagues and educators to collectively design resources, tools, and spaces of learning aimed at humanizing education for transformational impact. She holds a bachelor's degree in Japanese.

Experience

With a belief that high-quality instructional materials and inclusive practices contribute to every student's journey of becoming, Tina brings to her role at SAP experience in elementary teaching and instructional coaching, presenting and facilitating professional development, and having served as senior policy fellow with Teach Plus CA. Additionally, Tina is a children's book author. She lives in southern California near the beaches, mountains, and sunshine, and she enjoys reading, writing, connecting through deep conversation, meditating, and creating.

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More from Tina

  • Elementary School
  • Middle School
  • High School

Bridging Language Learning, Culture, and Interest

As our society becomes increasingly interconnected, the value of learning new languages cannot be overstated. Yet, traditional language learning methods often overlook a crucial element: personal rele… Read More

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  • Elementary School
  • Middle School
  • Literacy

Designing Culturally Relevant Text Sets

Leveraging the power of text sets to support culturally relevant instruction In this post, the design team behind a new text set prototype shares insights from their process thus far. This draft Text… Read More

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  • Middle School
  • High School
  • Peers & Pedagogy

Targeting Critical Years in Literacy: 6th & 9th Grades Reimagined

Systems function as they were designed. This includes public schools, where there are too many systemwide failures teaching students how to read at grade level, and disproportionately so for Black stu… Read More

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