NWEA Professional Learning literacy expert Dr. Tiffany Peltier shares her approach for teachers to use spelling to reinforce phonics skills.

NWEA Professional Learning literacy expert Dr. Tiffany Peltier shares a variety of techniques for introducing new vocabulary words, including several ideas to get the kids talking to each other and involved in creating usage examples.

NWEA Professional Learning literacy expert Dr. Tiffany Peltier demonstrates how spelling and word-chaining routines can be used to reinforce more complex vocabulary.

NWEA Professional Learning literacy expert Dr. Tiffany Peltier welcomes students to the NWEA Learning Lab to go through some beginner techniques for learning letter sounds and sounding out words, including the benefits of teaching blendable phonemes.

NWEA Professional Learning literacy expert Dr. Tiffany Peltier welcomes students to the NWEA Learning Lab to demonstrate some simple spelling routines.

When every classroom includes students at vastly different levels, teachers need more than encouragement—they need real support. This article explores how Personalized Path empowers educators with precise placement, adaptive instruction, and actionable data to meet diverse learning needs and improve outcomes across Tiers I, II, and III.

NWEA® continually refines the methodologies used to generate our norms so they remain statistically rigorous as well as accurate and relevant. This 2025 update is essential to account for changes in US student demographics, postpandemic shifts in student performance, and the item-selection algorithm in the newly enhanced version of MAP® Growth™.