1.13.22 Jonathan Fine 10 ways to prepare students for MAP Growth winter testing As any researcher will tell you, good data doesn’t just happen. It’s the result of a lot of care and planning. When administering an interim assessment like MAP® Growth™, we get good data when... Read more
12.21.21 Jonathan Fine 4 ways a Georgia school district makes the most of professional learning Four years ago, Georgia’s Floyd County Schools District took on a new challenge: rolling out MAP® Growth™ for the first time. For this mostly rural district serving 9,000 kids in the northwest... Read more
6.24.21 Jonathan Fine Learn how to use ESSER funding to help students with disabilities As the pandemic continues to reverberate throughout our education system, schools find themselves with both unprecedented challenges and rare, potentially transformative opportunities for renewal.... Read more
6.22.21 Jonathan Fine 4 indispensable frameworks for successful goal setting “If you have built castles in the air,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden, “your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” In his own... Read more
3.18.21 Jonathan Fine This time it’s personal: Making the most of distance learning We’re all looking for silver linings these days. For example, while many of us are weary of living so much of our lives online, we also recognize it’s fortunate that tech tools exist to help us... Read more
2.25.21 Jonathan Fine MAP Growth data is shaping South Carolina education policy during COVID-19 South Carolina has its share of challenges. Poverty is pervasive, and the state tends to rank low in educational achievement relative to other states. On the positive side, elected officials and... Read more
2.2.21 Jonathan Fine How MAP Growth helps elementary school teachers differentiate instruction Ask Susan Hankins about the most important factor in her school’s success, and she won’t hesitate to tell you: it’s the teachers. In her tenure as principal of Memphis Elementary School,... Read more
1.19.21 Jonathan Fine 3 timely ways to make great use of assessment data With so many question marks in the air these days, isn’t there something reassuring about good data that gives us reliable answers? This is certainly true in education, where schools rely on... Read more
12.10.20 Jonathan Fine How remote testing can keep students connected and on track When you administer an interim learning assessment like MAP® Growth™, you get back mountains of data that helps you answer all kinds of important questions. For example: Which kids are struggling... Read more
11.19.20 Jonathan Fine How to help students become their own best advocates Even in the best of times, it takes care and effort to engage kids in their learning process. Students do better when they’re able to make active choices about what and how they’re learning,... Read more
9.22.20 Jonathan Fine Make sense of MAP assessments with the Family Toolkit To all the families out there navigating your way through this unpredictable school year, know this: you’re not alone. The challenges you’re facing are new, complex, and shared by many. That’s... Read more
8.31.20 Jonathan Fine Rethink the school day: 3 ways to make the shift to online learning When Neria Sebastien, EdD, taught for an exclusively online K–12 school in Oregon, his school days began with a fresh take on a familiar ritual: a 20-minute homeroom. Instead of filing into a... Read more
