What’s it like in classrooms right now? The only way to know is to ask a teacher, so we sat down with a first-grade elementary teacher and a sixth-grade social studies & science teacher and listened.

NWEA and Tacoma Public Schools collaboratively defined a set of challenges and developed meaningful, evidence-based solutions around two workstreams critical to student learning and success: social-emotional learning (SEL) and family engagement. Over the course of an extended partnership, NWEA worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Tacoma educators, providing program management, school improvement services, and research capabilities. The teams relied on their collective strengths to deliver the best results for the district’s students, families, and staff.

In this episode of The Continuing Educator, we talk to a working educator about the importance of family literacy and strategies for increasing it. Our guest Martin Silverman is the principal at Salinas Elementary School in Universal City, TX, and has worked as a teacher in both urban and rural schools. From his own experiences growing up, he saw the importance of literacy as a focus in families and has sought to revitalize that practice in the families of his students.

In this unit, students will explore how the historical practice of redlining interacts with the patterns of heat distribution within communities.

In this unit, students will explore how the historical practice of redlining interacts with the patterns of heat distribution within communities.

Researchers from NWEA partnered with NewSchools Venture Fund  to explore the relationship between school culture and climate, social and emotional learning, and academic achievement. Learn more about this innovative research partnership.

Funded by Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility Grant, NWEA joined with Perkins Access, Governor Morehead School, and Sonja Steinbach, a math educator who works with students with vision disabilities. Together, they embarked on a unique research partnership to make middle school mathematics assessments more accessible for students with vision impairments.