7.11.19 Erin Ryan Three Ways to Better Engage Students to Get the Most from Educational Assessments It’s not uncommon to find a classroom where a few highly motivated students monopolize the discussion. To ensure that all students are learning, teachers need to find opportunities to actively... Read more
4.16.19 Kathy Dyer Four Formative Assessment Strategies to Power Up Self-Regulated Learning Lately, I’ve been thinking about the connection between formative assessment and self-regulated learning. This idea of self-regulated learners has been around for a long time with implicit, more... Read more
2.19.19 Nikkie Zanevsky What to Do AFTER Winter Testing? 5 Tips from Teachers Done with your winter MAP Growth tests? If not, check out these posts first: Top 6 Test Prep Tips from Teachers on Instagram and 5 More Testing Season Tips from Teachers on Instagram. And if you DO... Read more
12.28.18 Joi Converse The Top Ten Blog Posts of 2018 All of the authors here at Teach. Learn. Grow. would like to extend our best wishes for a safe and happy holiday season. It’s been another fantastic year, and as it comes to a close, we wanted to... Read more
12.26.18 Kara Bobowski Top 10 NWEA News Stories of 2018 As we close out 2018, we thought it would be interesting to look back on 10 of the most shared media stories about NWEA and our customers during the year. It was a busy year – and these are the... Read more
11.20.18 Erin Ryan Are You Encouraging False Growth Mindset? Ask Yourself 3 Questions. Growth mindset is the firmly held belief that people can learn new things or develop new skills and talents through experience, hard work, good habits, and by asking for help. This is in direct... Read more
11.13.18 Kathy Dyer What if the Whole Class was Participating? When most people think about assessments, they still think mainly of summative or perhaps interim, and yet assessment plays out in classrooms every day, and often it’s not unfolding the way it... Read more
11.9.18 Joi Converse 3 Reasons to See What’s New with NWEA Connection Whether you’re a veteran MAP Growth user or you’re just getting started, now’s the perfect time to join (or re-join!) the community of educators at NWEA Connection! NWEA Connection is a... Read more
11.2.18 Nicole Zdeb Kids Don’t Get a Second Chance at a Great Start I’m always excited by the research that comes out of the venerable Sesame Workshop, but it was hard to feel cheery after reading the recently published brief, Kindergartners’ Skills at... Read more
10.25.18 Jaime Vázquez How an IB School in Budapest is Improving Literacy with MAP Growth When teacher Laura Vas first set out to create a hybrid approach to helping her students improve their literacy skills, she had no idea she'd be embarking on one of the biggest challenges of her... Read more
10.16.18 Kathy Dyer Creating Flexible Groups Based on Data As we talk about understanding assessments and learning to apply data to classroom instruction, one way to use assessment data is for differentiation. Differentiation for educators is tailoring... Read more
10.9.18 Andy Set Three Essential MAP Growth Reports That Facilitate Parent-Teacher Communications The MAP® Growth™ K–12 interim assessment provides essential information about a student’s continuum of learning and growth trajectory. MAP Growth provides real-time information that... Read more
