3.7.23 Heather Cella, NWEA How MAP reports help reading teachers scaffold instruction Imagine this: It is your first year as a second-grade teacher after five years of teaching third grade. While your former classroom is right down the hall, you are now realizing that these two grades... Read more
3.2.23 Lynne Kulich, NWEA 3 systematic and explicit ways to support language comprehension One of my favorite reading memories is of my adult daughter when she was three years old. Before bedtime, I always read aloud to her, and I can still see us cuddled together with Charlotte’s... Read more
2.28.23 Scott Peters, NWEA Every school has advanced learners. Use local norms to find them When I was in graduate school at Purdue University, I worked on a project recruiting Hispanic students from low-income families for free Saturday gifted and talented enrichment programs. I went to... Read more
2.23.23 Miles Davison, NWEA 2 ways to include students and their families in restorative justice work I’ve previously written about restorative justice (RJ) and have offered insights into the various factors that school administrators and other educators should consider when implementing RJ. In... Read more
2.21.23 Leslie Yudman, NWEA 3 ways to help nurture inclusive, collaborative learning spaces in elementary grades Back when I was a first-grade teacher, I used learning centers during small-group reading instruction. While I met with a small group, the rest of the class worked at different centers set up around... Read more
2.16.23 Monica Rodríguez, NWEA 6 habits of a good (and always improving) writing teacher Language arts has always been my jam. When I was about 10, my most prized possession was a boxed set of the entire Ramona Quimby series. Eight years later, it didn’t take long to settle on English... Read more
2.14.23 Heather Cella, NWEA How different assessment data can help early reading teachers move students forward Imagine this: It’s after school on a cold day in January and you have just finished changing out the seasonal bulletin board in your first-grade classroom. It now showcases snowflakes and snowmen... Read more
2.9.23 Heather Cella, NWEA How school leaders can compare term data from different assessments to see the big picture Imagine it’s a week after testing windows have closed and you are anxious to review your MAP® Growth™ and MAP® Reading Fluency™ data. With all the buzz about the science of reading, teachers... Read more
2.7.23 Lynne Kulich, NWEA How to get the most from MAP Reading Fluency reports While completing my undergraduate degree in French education, I decided to take a popular social dance course as an elective. I learned (and have since forgotten) a variety of dances such as the fox... Read more
2.2.23 Lauren Bardwell, NWEA 4 ways to work smarter—not harder—at giving feedback on student writing I loved being a high school English teacher: introducing teenagers to new literature and sophisticated topics, supporting them as they grappled their way through complex texts, and helping them... Read more
2.1.23 Erin Ryan, NWEA Kick-start Black History Month in your classroom (and keep it going all year) Black History Month began in 1926 as Negro History Week, an event hosted by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. By the late 1960s, the annual event transitioned to a month-long... Read more
1.31.23 Erik Ruzek, NWEA Invite high schoolers to participate in our data science competition starting in February In a digital world, data is everywhere. Every time you interact with a platform, whether it’s a website, app, or game, you are generating data on your use of that platform. Data scientists work... Read more
