7.7.17 3 ways parents can help prevent summer slide School is out, and if you’re like a lot of us parents, you’re still combing through piles of papers, artwork, reports, and other locker remnants that came home from school. One item you should... Read more
6.23.17 11 Teacher Learning Community Traits that Can Bring Positive Change Changing teacher practice – improving pedagogy – takes time. When teachers get together to learn about ways to implement and refine formative assessment, we often call them professional learning... Read more
6.13.17 NWEA Research Gets Local and National Attention A recent study, published in the Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk, found that students who participated in an Early Kindergarten Transition (EKT) program... Read more
5.30.17 Swap Roles With Your Students: The Teacher Report Card We assess and provide feedback to our students all day, and many of you (depending on where you are geographically) are probably knee deep in end-of-the-year state testing, end-of-the-year school... Read more
5.23.17 Use your MAP Score to Create a Summer Reading Plan As the school year begins to wind down, summer plans begin to take shape. A plan many schools and teachers are forming is one to support summer reading—whether through a formal program or simply... Read more
5.9.17 Three Tips for Avoiding State Assessment Surprises My MAP® story began long before joining NWEA, when I was a district administrator in Massillon City Schools, Ohio. As is still the case, all third-grade students needed a proficient reading... Read more
4.25.17 MAP Scores…and the Likelihood of Free College Tuition College and career readiness has been a recent drive of K-12 education, aiming to prepare students to enter post-secondary education without remediation. Students generally take the ACTⓇ or... Read more
4.11.17 Resources for Bringing Mathematical Practices Into Your Classroom The focus in math classrooms today is meant to be on more than simply leading students to find the right answer. The CCSS Mathematical Practice standards, as well as other process standards, are... Read more
4.4.17 Practice Makes Perfect: Using Practice Standards to Increase Classroom Engagement Are my students able to add and subtract within 100? Can they read a histogram or multiply mixed numbers? These are the types of standards-based questions that we often ask ourselves as teachers. In... Read more
3.17.17 U.S. Educators Are on the Right Track (Even When Compared to Finland) During Morning Meeting, I asked my 5th graders to use an adjective to describe their summer. I chose “inspiring.” As the 2016 Virginia Teacher of the Year, I had an inspiring summer – the kind... Read more
