Shundra Brown is Executive Director of Instruction in Houston ISD, supervising principals across eight campuses. In this interview, she shares how she drives instructional improvement with MAP Growth. She also explains how MAP Growth provides longitudinal growth metrics beyond unit tests and proficiency, enabling skill-level diagnosis, individualized intervention and acceleration, and year-over-year campus comparisons and analyses. The interview covers key reports, including the Achievement Summary Growth (ASG) report and STAAR Projected Proficiency report. MAP is embedded districtwide in Houston, powering student goal-setting conferences, growth celebrations to build confidence (especially below grade level), multilingual learner support and better communication of results to the school board.

Have you ever left a school board meeting wishing you and your presentation had been more successful? Many other administrators will tell you that you are most assuredly not alone! Here are proven strategies that can help you avoid common missteps, build trust, and align your presentation with the needs of your school board.

Explore how one teacher uncovered the real reason behind a student’s stagnant scores—and why digging deeper into MAP Growth data can reveal more than meets the eye.

Brian Amsler is the principal at Lincoln Middle School in Schiller Park School District in Illinois, where the NWEA Research Team first identified how these strategies work in concert to bring about growth. In this conversation, Brian speaks with Dr. David Collum, Data & Assessment Coordinator at Confluence Academies in St. Louis, MO about his efforts to put the Transformative Ten in action and the challenges to creating a high growth mindset.

MTSS is a framework for helping educators meet the diverse needs of learners. It relies heavily on assessment, a critical piece in the puzzle of understanding where kids are in their learning. In this collection of posts from our blog, Teach. Learn. Grow., you can learn more about how to use MTSS effectively in your school or district.

Discover six strategies to help district leaders and educators build a culture that endures. You’ll learn about expanding leadership, championing goal-setting, leveraging AI, and more, alongside examples from districts that used each strategy and saw results.

How do high-performing districts turn assessment data into measurable student growth? Watch this webinar to learn how West Feliciana Parish Schools used MAP® Growth™ data to build a proactive strategy that earned them the title of Louisiana’s top-ranked district.