NWEA Professional Learning literacy expert Dr. Tiffany Peltier welcomes students to the NWEA Learning Lab to demonstrate some simple spelling routines.

When every classroom includes students at vastly different levels, teachers need more than encouragement—they need real support. This article explores how Personalized Path empowers educators with precise placement, adaptive instruction, and actionable data to meet diverse learning needs and improve outcomes across Tiers I, II, and III.

Personalizing instruction takes commitment and planning, but the potential rewards are worth it. There are proven practices that can streamline the process while still generating remarkable results.

A brief overview of MAP Growth by the numbers.

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.

Turn learning evidence into instructional action
Activate MAP® Growth™ with professional learning experiences that build basic product-use capacity, hone assessment literacy, improve goal setting and responsive instructional planning, and build deeper data competency.

NWEA® continually refines the methodologies used to generate our norms so they remain statistically rigorous as well as accurate and relevant. This 2025 update is essential to account for changes in US student demographics, postpandemic shifts in student performance, and the item-selection algorithm in the newly enhanced version of MAP® Growth™.