For most teachers, there are more responsibilities than hours in the day. So the professional learning they invest in must fit into their jam-packed schedules—and it must be actionable enough to have an immediate value in the classroom.
At NWEA, we design learning experiences from that point of view. We know that every learning interaction we have with educators, whether it’s online or in person, must:
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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: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
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In this episode, we present the five principles of assessment empowerment—learner context, learning environments and relationships, appropriate purpose, responsive learning cycles, communication—and offer listeners strategies they can try for each.
Topics: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
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Learn how NWEA School Improvement services partners with you to deliver a customized school improvement plan that empowers school leaders as the central agents of change.
Topics: Empowering educators, Equity, Growth, School improvement
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In this episode, we discuss information why and how teaching programs fail to prepare gen ed teachers for working with students with disabilities, break down a few common myths about students with disabilities, and give teachers actionable ideas and strategies for building student agency with their entire class. Our guests are two NWEA experts in special education: Douglas Buttorff (content designer) and Elizabeth Barker (accessibility research scientist).
Topics: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
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In this discussion, we cover how to recognize the assets emergent bilingual students bring with them, how to get back into the groove of academic language, and how to make room for both language and communication with English language learners.
Topics: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
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Math outcomes across a school or district are often far from homogenous. MAP Accelerator, a personalized math learning tool for students in grades 3–8, can help you build a more cohesive, consistent set of instructional practices. It brings MAP Growth data and Khan Academy learning pathways together to better support your math teachers in helping all students grow.
Topics: Differentiated instruction, Empowering educators, Informing instruction, Math & STEM, Personalized learning
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In relentless pursuit of our mission to help all kids learn, the Policy and Advocacy team at NWEA elevates five key areas in which we seek to influence decision-making: informing the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, driving equity and innovation in assessments, supporting the reimagining of accountability, building and supporting a diverse educator workforce, and expanding opportunities to learn.
Topics: Empowering educators, Equity, ESSA, Growth, Informing instruction, Innovations in reporting & assessment, Insights and reports, Measurement & scaling, Policy & Advocacy, Research, School improvement, Teacher preparation
