eBook
Classroom approaches for healing from stress and trauma
In this collection of Teach. Learn. Grow. posts, Erin Beard, content design coordinator on NWEAās professional learning team, offers validation, information, strategies, and tools educators can use in any kind of learning space to support their students in social-emotional learning and overcoming toxic stress and trauma.
Topics: Social emotional learning
Products: Professional Learning
Podcast
The Continuing Educator | What is student agency? With Sarah Brown-Wessling and Anthony Swann
Teachers have tremendously complex jobs and a constantly shifting ecosystem of expectations, yet despite shifts across so many other areas of educational practice, building student agency remains a key desired classroom outcome that educators generally recognize as an area of need. This conversation will give teacher voice to the importance of student agency, varied practitioner views on the opportunities and challenges related to building student agency, and a frame for the season that will prepare listeners to hear about topics ranging from supportive environments and goal setting to meeting the unique needs of students with disabilities and emergent bilinguals.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning
Case Study
One coherent system to drive action ā Nebraska Overview
Learn how Nebraska Department of Education partnered with NWEAĀ® to co-create a new, student-centered approach to statewide assessment by integrating district and state measures using an adaptive through-year assessment model. This comprehensive approach streamlines testing, prioritizes student engagement, provides timely instructional feedback, and accurately measures student performance over time.
Topics: Assessment, Professional learning
Products: State Solutions
Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Giving students a say, with Myron Dueck and Brooke Mabry
This session examines elements of student āvoice and choiceā as critical enabling elements needed to build in students that kind of self-efficacy that will help them thrive and meet their full potential as learners.
Topics: Social emotional learning
Products: Professional Learning
Podcast
This episode will explore elements of culturally responsive teaching, supportive environments, and the actions that educators and leaders can take to create a space where students belong, feel valued, and thereby are more likely to take risks, make mistakes, and build a sense of self-efficacy that will serve them well in their academic journeys and in their lives beyond school.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources, Social emotional learning
Products: Professional Learning
Fact Sheet
Creating equitable assessments
At NWEA, we understand that data from the assessments we create plays a critical role in supporting student-centered instruction, and in informing the systems, policies, and investments that support equal opportunity for all students to learn. As we partner with states and the districts to create systems that positively impact all students, we apply an equity lens to test design, content development, and integration of accessibility and accommodations.
Topics: Equity, Policy & advocacy
Products: State Solutions
Podcast
In this conversation, we venture into the domain specific ways we, as educators, can empower students within our classrooms.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy, Math
Products: Professional Learning