5Essentials Survey

Empower students with a healthy, collaborative culture of learning
This suite supports educators to partner with their students throughout the learning journey to develop and sustain practices that propel academic achievement, well-being, and self-efficacy for all.

Master math practices that maximize achievement and growth
This math suite provides educators with a deep understanding of content and research-based instructional practices, along with ways to apply that understanding to their unique grade-level instructional needs and content standards.

Support equitable growth for all students
This suite focuses on equity as it relates to access to content for students and teachers and high-quality instruction. It makes equitable teaching practices tangible and highly actionable on a daily basis by heightening awareness of the various equity tie-ins to instruction and identifying data practices and instructional moves that allow for greater equity and improved student outcomes.

Empower students with a healthy, collaborative classroom culture of learning
This suite focuses on aligning the mindsets, systems, and practices that sustain an assessment system centered on empowering students and offers educators a framework for appropriately using assessments and their results to inform critical instruction-related decisions.

Turn learning evidence into instructional action
Activate MAP® Reading Fluency™ with professional learning around using your assessment data to gain a more holistic view of early readers’ abilities and how to target instruction that is just right for each student and track learning progress.

In this episode of The Continuing Educator, our hosts talk about how to establish a real rapport with your students and build a classroom culture where they can trust and thrive. The first step? Ask your kids how they want the class to work for them, and be honest about what you expect in return. Kids can smell inauthenticity. Plus: Tips for when to step in to kids’ conflicts with each other, the utility of unicorns and mermaids, and a google-form for hair-adjacent encouragement.

NWEA Professional Learning develops professional practice in four critical, interconnected categories that help educators make the most instructional impact. Get a closer look at the robust, holistic offerings available for your school or district.