The idea that reading is important isn’t just an intuition. It’s supported by research, like this and this and this. To avoid the dreaded “summer slide” in reading achievement, parents and...
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As we drift into summer, we often hear about the three Rs – reading, (w)riting, and (a)rithmetic. But as Dale Basye reflects over on our online community, NWEA Connection in his post – The 3 Rs...
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This article in EdWeek highlights an idea I love – WIN sessions in Henry County, Georgia. WIN, or What I Need, periods provide students choice about, flexibility in, and ownership of their...
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National Teacher Appreciation Week is this week, and wait, what?? It is when??
While it is true that no student goes to school to fail, it also true that no teacher comes in front of their children...
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Fusion Portland 2018 will be here before you know it! It’s happening June 27–29 at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront. Check out our great conference lineup—full of breakout sessions...
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They say it “takes a village” to raise a child, and at NWEA, we believe that means a “village” of approaches: students do better when teachers apply a variety of tools to help them learn. For...
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If you’re a practitioner of formative instructional practice, or formative assessment, then you know that one of the foundations of smart practice is establishing success criteria in the classroom....
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MAP® Skills™ is an online classroom assessment system that quickly measures student skills in math, reading comprehension, vocabulary, and language usage. MAP Skills is designed to give a “power...
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Daniel Venables, in a TeachThought blog that I still often refer to, talks about data as tools teachers can use to teach better. He provides eight sources of daily classroom data which can help...
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Although girls and boys tend to take higher-level math and science courses at relatively the same rate, women represent less than 30 percent of the science and engineering workforce. The table below...
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There has been a lot of conversation over the past year about SEL—social and emotional learning—or that process through which all of us (regardless of age) acquire and apply the skills to manage...
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All of us at Teach. Learn. Grow. would like to extend our best wishes for a safe and Happy New Year! It was an exciting year for us as we launched a new look-and-feel, added new blog contributors,...
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