When I was 21 and began teaching, I was rarely absent. Then, life happened. I had a baby, became a State Teacher of the Year, and found myself serving on various committees and attending professional...
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Clayton County Public Schools, where I work as a psychometrician, is a member of the Georgia MAP Assessment Partnership (GMAP), a consortium of districts in Georgia dedicated to reducing overall...
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The Umatilla School District, in eastern Oregon, may be small, but it’s a powerhouse.
The rural district works hard to meet the needs of all its students—including a large population of English...
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Abby Javurek, vice president of Educational Solutions at NWEA, was recently awarded first place for her submission to the Fordham Institute’s 2019 Wonkathon. Titled “Beyond the binary: We can...
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Has diversity increased in your school or district since you became an educator?
Work by the Pew Research Center has shown that post-Millennials—kids born between 1997 and 2012—are the most...
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Ready to learn about MAP® Accelerator™? Developed by NWEA in partnership with Khan Academy, it helps teachers differentiate math instruction for kids in grades 3–8.
I sat down with Joel Thomas,...
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Over the summer, I spoke with Dr. Andy Hegedus about his recently published research exploring the relationships between poverty and school performance. This month, Andy embarks on phase two of this...
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It’s been another great year for Teach. Learn. Grow. Thanks to our readers, of course.
As 2019 comes to an end, we’re shaking our heads wondering where the time went. We’re also eager to share...
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Littlestown, Pennsylvania, is a small town in south-central Pennsylvania. The town’s eponymous school district is three buildings big—an elementary, middle, and high school—and serves just...
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This is the sixth in a series about building trajectory-based performance tasks. Stay tuned for follow-up posts, and watch our on-demand webinar on this topic.
In our last post, we explored why...
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This fall, my five-year-old daughter started kindergarten—and learning how to read. While she had plenty of practice with letters and their sounds in preschool, she’d never sounded out words...
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Did you know researchers use MAP® Growth™ data to explore how schools and districts can improve opportunities for students?
At Texas A&M, Dr. Karen Rambo-Hernández and her team recently...
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