10.19.23 Kailey Rhodes, Northwest Academy MAP Accelerator and professional learning workshops are here to support math teachers As a math teacher, I had some lightbulb moments when I watched the recent NWEA webinar “Supercharge math confidence (for teachers and students) with MAP Accelerator.” And I’ll admit it, as a... Read more
10.17.23 Jonathan Fine, NWEA From The Continuing Educator: How to bring inclusion, focus, and fuzzy feelings to your classroom If you’re a teacher who’s looking for new ways to keep your students focused and on task, there’s one technique (a bit unorthodox, perhaps, but guaranteed to get their attention) you might want... Read more
10.12.23 Fenesha Hubbard, NWEA How to evaluate classroom products Teachers rely on a myriad of classroom products to support teaching and learning. The goal of using them is to improve student achievement. In my book, The Equity Expression: Six Entry Points for... Read more
10.10.23 Scott Peters, NWEA MAP Growth can lower the cost and increase the accuracy of gifted and talented placements I first became interested in assessment because I believed in what it could do. I believed it could help educators, administrators, and policymakers better design and target instruction, which can... Read more
10.5.23 Emily Morton, CALDER at the American Institutes of Research 3 academic interventions policymakers can support to help get students back on track According to the latest NWEA data, students last spring were, on average, 4.1 months behind pre-pandemic achievement levels in reading and 4.5 months behind in math. Students in middle school grades,... Read more
10.3.23 Chase Nordengren, NWEA Goal setting in the fall: Start with MAP Growth scores With the last vestiges of summer now shaken off, you’re probably starting to form the first real idea of who the students in your classroom are as people: what frustrates them, what makes them... Read more
9.28.23 Miah Daughtery, NWEA 6 ways to increase reading motivation and engagement When I taught eighth-grade English, I sometimes came across a reluctant reader. One of the things I prided myself on was finding a book even the most resistant reader would enjoy. One year, I had a... Read more
9.26.23 Andrew McEachin, NWEA Summer programs can be an effective treatment, but districts need to get the “dosage” right The new school year is well underway nationwide, and it’s worth pausing a moment to reflect on the investments school districts made in summer learning. To help students recover from large... Read more
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
