CEO & Teacher

My name is Adam Sparks. I grew up on a farm outside of the small town of Louisville, NE. I graduated from Creighton University in 2014 with a degree in history and secondary education. Since then, I've taught in the most varied contexts imaginable: Rural Nebraska for 3 years, urban China for 1, and the west side of Chicago for 2. During the pandemic, I worked in a district technology office helping out with their 1-1 chromebook rollout in response to COVID. For the last year, I was a full-time graduate student in Stanford's Learning Design and Technology program where my work focused on using peer feedback to improve formative assessment pedagogy. For my masters capstone project, we built a web app called Short Answer. I now work full time on Short Answer with my wife Alexa. At Short Answer, we help teachers build better K12 writers though engaging peer feedback activites for any subject.