9.21.23 Anita Brown, NWEA Free resources for bringing the Common Core standards for mathematical practice to life Getting comfortable with the Common Core standards for mathematical practice can make a big difference in your classroom. Imagine your curriculum as a cross-country road trip: sights to see,... Read more
9.19.23 Jen Allen, NWEA COVID-19 school closures and student achievement: What teachers can do Like I mentioned in an earlier post, recent research on the effects of COVID-19 school closures has revealed that progress toward academic recovery for older kids has been slower than projected. My... Read more
9.12.23 Jonathan Fine, NWEA 5 ways to create an authentic classroom culture Did you know that kids can smell inauthenticity? Middle school math teacher Kailey Rhodes recently shared this friendly word of caution on The Continuing Educator podcast. Kailey and her co-host,... Read more
9.7.23 Julie Richardson, NWEA 5 ways you can help kids develop executive functions skills for reading I want to tell you a story about a shy girl who always had her head in a book. Because she always had her head in a book, no one knew she struggled to read. No one knew how much longer it took her to... Read more
9.5.23 Jen Allen, NWEA College and career readiness should begin in fifth grade I often facilitate MAP® Growth™ professional learning workshops for high school teachers and administrators, and one of the most frequent complaints I hear is the lack of effort students put forth... Read more
8.31.23 Lauren Bardwell, NWEA 5 ways English teachers can use ChatGPT in their classroom When we at NWEA released a document sharing our views on writing instruction last September, we were excited about the innovations happening with digital literacy. We even discussed a body of... Read more
8.29.23 Jen Allen, NWEA COVID-19 school closures effects linger: How school leaders can help The latest NWEA research on the effects of COVID-19 school closures is in: progress toward academic recovery for older kids in particular has been slower than we’d like. Our researchers are... Read more
8.24.23 Nick Joe, NWEA 4 ways to use improv in your math classroom to engage kids Improvised comedy, or improv, for short, is the art of creating a scene from nothing but a suggestion, often with a scene partner or group. Great improv will leave audience members wondering if the... Read more
8.22.23 Julie Richardson, NWEA How inquiry-based learning can ignite the learner in all of us My son had a teacher in third grade who changed everything for him. Up to that point, recess was his favorite subject. Then he was introduced to inquiry-based learning that extended beyond the... Read more
8.17.23 Fenesha Hubbard, NWEA How teachers can build professional relationships with each other—and themselves We need to put more relating back into relationships. More specifically, we need to invest in helping educators build meaningful professional relationships with each other and with themselves. As I... Read more
8.15.23 Laura Hansen, NWEA 3 ways to improve students’ digital literacy skills Digital literacy is something we didn’t have to think much about a few decades ago. But as the amount of information available to us—from online newspapers and other websites to social media... Read more
8.10.23 Chloe Torres, NWEA Assessment security: Who—or what—are we really protecting? There are many misconceptions blocking innovation in state summative assessments. One is security. Existing policies related to assessment security may be doing more harm than good. An antiquated... Read more
