Video
Why Teachers Matter
08.24.17
Description
Former educators and current NWEA staff share their reflections on the impact of teachers.
Topics: Leadership
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Classroom ready: Simple, impactful ways to engage your teachers
Like the students they serve, every educator enters the classroom in varying states of readiness. Education leaders must ensure each teacher has the tools, professional learning, and guidance they need to be successful. This detailed guide examines how the components of an NWEA Solution can provide the support teachers demand and deserve.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources, Assessment, Early learning, Leadership, Literacy, Math, Professional learning
Products: MAP Growth, MAP Accelerator, Professional Learning


Article
10 can’t-miss benefits of MAP Reading Fluency
All reading tests are not created equal. With helpful features, innovative reporting tools, and robust professional learning experiences, MAP® Reading Fluency™ is an early reading assessment unlike any other. Learn more about the equity-advancing, time-saving features included with MAP Reading Fluency
Topics: Assessment, Early learning, Equity, Instructional strategy & resources, Leadership, Literacy, Multilingual learners, Professional learning
Products: MAP Reading Fluency


Webinar
What makes them stay? Uncovering essential leadership strategies to retain effective teachers
In this webinar, school improvement experts guide school and district leaders through the necessary steps to create the organizational conditions that lead to greater teacher retention. Grounded in UChicago Impact’s® research-based 5Essentials® framework, the presentation offers practical advice for fostering an environment where teachers feel supported, empowered, and satisfied.
Topics: Leadership, Professional learning, School improvement
Products: Professional Learning, School Improvement


Case Study
Seamless coordination from NWEA Program Management elevates the work of NewSchools Venture Fund
When a national nonprofit venture reimagining public education wanted to equip their large portfolio of partner schools with MAP Growth and professional learning, they leaned on the dedicated Program Management team at NWEA.
Topics: Insights and reports, Leadership, Professional learning
Products: MAP Growth, Professional Learning


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The Power of Partnership: Tacoma Public Schools + NWEA
NWEA and Tacoma Public Schools collaboratively defined a set of challenges and developed meaningful, evidence-based solutions around two workstreams critical to student learning and success: social-emotional learning (SEL) and family engagement. Over the course of an extended partnership, NWEA worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Tacoma educators, providing program management, school improvement services, and research capabilities. The teams relied on their collective strengths to deliver the best results for the district’s students, families, and staff.
Topics: Equity, Leadership
Products: School Improvement


Webinar
The science of reading for leaders: Helping your teachers shift instructional practice
In an exclusive webinar designed for administrators, NWEA literacy experts Dr. Cindy Jiban and John Luke Bell, led an engaging, research-based exploration of the science of reading. They also walked through strategies to build buy-in, level up and expand a team’s instructional practices, and sustain the change.
Topics: Assessment, Early learning, Instructional strategy & resources, Leadership, Literacy
Products: MAP Reading Fluency, Professional Learning


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NWEA Partnership Spotlight: Bolstering whole-child education alongside NewSchools Venture Fund
Researchers from NWEA partnered with NewSchools Venture Fund to explore the relationship between school culture and climate, social and emotional learning, and academic achievement. Learn more about this innovative research partnership.
Topics: Assessment, Education research, Equity, Leadership, Social emotional learning
Products: MAP Growth