Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Formative Conversation Starters, with Ted Coe and Anita Brown
āFor many, learning mathematics leads to perceiving the subject as a collection of procedures that are disconnected from any big picture. Itās much like filling a box with puzzle pieces, yet never building the puzzle.ā
For this episode, we are joined by Dr. Ted Coe and Anita Brown of NWEA to discuss how educators move beyond doing math to thinking about mathematical concepts, with a focus on formative conversation starters.
Topics: Assessment, Accessibility, Early learning, Equity, Insights and reports, Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy, Social emotional learning
Products: Professional Learning
Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Unfinished Learning, with Megan Kuhfeld and Jim Knight
Two years on from the start of the pandemic and weāre starting to see a glimmer of hope and pieces of normalcy return to our schools and classrooms. But as we move forward, we cannot ignore the lingering impact of pandemic disruptions.
Topics: Accessibility, Assessment, Early learning, Equity, Insights and reports, Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy, Social emotional learning
Products: MAP Growth, Professional Learning, School Improvement
Case Study
Targeted MAP Growth reports bolster district effectiveness of high-impacting tutoring initiative
Read how MAP Growth’s trustworthy data supporting a high-profile tutoring initiative garnered national attention for this Texas school district.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources, Leadership
Products: MAP Growth, Professional Learning
Webinar
Professional learning: The key for building student and teacher empowerment with assessment
Learn how educators can avoid thinking of assessments as frustrating events, irrelevant tasks, or disempowering hoops to jump through and create learning experiences around assessment that empower students and foster growth.
Topics: Professional learning
Products: Professional Learning
eBook
How to support reading at home: A guide for families
Literacy can be a big predictor of how a child will do in schoolāand even whether theyāll graduate. Thereās a lot families can do to support a young reader at home. This collection of Teach. Learn. Grow. blog posts by NWEA literacy experts will walk you through exactly what to try. (If youāre an educator eager to support families reading at home, please share this e-book with them!)
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources, Early learning, Literacy
Products: Professional Learning
Webinar
Goals mean growth: Using student goal setting to jumpstart student motivation and success
Chase Nordengren shares research-based, actionable strategies for making goal setting part of your instructional practice. Learn tips for using goals to drive growth and discover how goal setting can lead to a deeper exploration of responsive teaching and learning.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning
Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Student Goal Setting, with Chase Nordengren and Amanda Thornton
For our final episode on student agency, we thought it was time to help our students set some better goals. So, we brought in Chase Nordengren, senior research scientist at NWEA and author of the forthcoming book, Step Into Student Goal Setting (Corwin, Jan 2022).
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning