Assessment tools can be especially helpful for identifying learning gaps and providing targeted interventions for primary-grade students. Learn more about high-quality assessments and developmentally appropriate options for early learners.

Learn why supporting teachers with professional learning is central to helping them use data and effect meaningful change in the classroom.

Students are individuals, and teachers need insights into their knowledge and learning progress. With interim assessment, teachers have actionable data they can put to immediate use in the classroom.

In this webinar, you’ll hear research-backed recommendations about how your teachers can support student goal setting and practices in the classroom that empower student voice and choice.

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?

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.

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.