Guide
Using Lexile measures to improve reading instruction
To become proficient readers, young learners need experience with written language at increasingly higher levels of difficulty. Learn how the LexileĀ® reading measures can help you support students with targeted reading instruction.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy
Products: MAP Reading Fluency
Brief
Understanding the new Lexile Framework for Oral Reading
To build reading comprehension, kids may need support at different times in their journey. With the LexileĀ® Framework for Oral Reading, teachers have insight into what students needāand whenāto successfully read grade-level text.
Topics: Literacy
Products: MAP Reading Fluency
Guide
Assessing literacy with the MAP Suite for Early Learning
Your early learners need reliable, comprehensive reading assessments, but where do you start? Learn how MAP Growth Reading and MAP Reading Fluency work together to provide reliable, precise data to support emerging readers.
Topics: Assessment
Products: MAP Reading Fluency
Podcast
The Continuing Educator | The problem with grading behavior, with Matt Townsley and Chris Thoms
Traditional grading practices typically incorporate non-learning measures such as behavior and effort into an average. Yet by mixing achievement and behavior, we miscommunicate on both accounts. Students and parents still need information on both, but the critical step is to separate reporting, and Dr. Matt Townsley and NWEA User Experience Designer Chris Thoms will share with us both why this is crucial for equity, and how teachers can put it into action.
Topics: Equity
Products: Professional Learning
Podcast
The Continuing Educator | What is “Grading for Learning?” with Myron Dueck and Brooke Mabry (Ep. 2)
To successfully create the conditions where grading for learning practices may thrive, consider first the importance of ensuring student-centered assessment. Hear from experts on how formative assessment is crucial to cultivating a growth-mindset in a safe, respectful classroom environment, and learn how to invite students to be co-pilots in the assessment and feedback cycle rather than passengers.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning
Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Why do we grade? with Thomas Guskey and Chase Nordengren
Let’s begin our journey towards better grading practices! Grades have remained a fundamental component of our education system for over a century. Yet despite shifts across so many other areas of educational practice, grading practices have seen little, if any, change to match the demands of modern pedagogy. The pandemic revealed stark flaws in traditional grading protocols and simultaneously presented a profound opportunity for actual change. What should educators, families, and society in general consider around why change is needed and where to begin?
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning
Case Study
How a professional learning partnership helped support student growth in South Carolina
What happens when reliable data becomes a schoolās driving force? Read this case study to see how one district collaborated with NWEA to create a culture of higher expectations for all.
Topics: Leadership
Products: Professional Learning