Teacher preparation


Webinar
Professional learning: The key for building student and teacher empowerment with assessment
Learn how educators can avoid thinking of assessments as frustrating events, irrelevant tasks, or disempowering hoops to jump through and create learning experiences around assessment that empower students and foster growth.
Topics: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Formative assessment, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning


Fact Sheet
Content-Focused Professional Learning Fact Sheet
An introduction to Content-Focused Professional Learning in a format that’s easy to read and share.
Topics: Early learning, Empowering educators, Growth, Math & STEM, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning


Fact Sheet
Creating Supportive Environments Professional Learning Series Fact Sheet
An introduction to the Creating Supportive Environments Professional Learning Series in a format that’s easy to read and share.
Topics: Empowering educators, Social-emotional learning, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning


Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Student Goal Setting, with Chase Nordengren and Amanda Thornton
For our final episode on student agency, we thought it was time to help our students set some better goals. So, we brought in Chase Nordengren, senior research scientist at NWEA and author of the forthcoming book, Step Into Student Goal Setting (Corwin, Jan 2022).
Topics: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning


Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Assessment Empowerment, with E. Caroline Wylie and Erin Beard
In this episode, we present the five principles of assessment empowerment—learner context, learning environments and relationships, appropriate purpose, responsive learning cycles, communication—and offer listeners strategies they can try for each.
Topics: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning


Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Accessibility and student agency, with Douglas Buttorff and Elizabeth Barker
In this episode, we discuss information why and how teaching programs fail to prepare gen ed teachers for working with students with disabilities, break down a few common myths about students with disabilities, and give teachers actionable ideas and strategies for building student agency with their entire class. Our guests are two NWEA experts in special education: Douglas Buttorff (content designer) and Elizabeth Barker (accessibility research scientist).
Topics: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning


Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Emergent bilingual student agency, with Angela Johnson, Teresa Krastel, and Adam Withycombe
In this discussion, we cover how to recognize the assets emergent bilingual students bring with them, how to get back into the groove of academic language, and how to make room for both language and communication with English language learners.
Topics: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning