Podcast
Testing America’s Freedom
Testing America’s Freedom is a limited podcast series produced by NWEA about race and public education in the U.S. Hosted by Dr. Aaliyah Samuel, the series features discussions with leaders in education on topics including the impacts of desegregation, school funding, testing, curriculum, and much more.


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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


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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


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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


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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


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The Continuing Educator | Building student agency in ELA, math and science, with Ted Coe, Fenesha Hubbard and Miah Daughtery
In this conversation, we venture into the domain specific ways we, as educators, can empower students within our classrooms.
Topics: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning


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The Continuing Educator | How culturally responsive teaching enables student agency, with Benjie Howard and Lindsay Prendergast
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: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning


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The Continuing Educator | Giving students a say, with Myron Dueck and Brooke Mabry
This session examines elements of student ‘voice and choice’ 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: Classroom tips, Empowering educators, Growth, Informing instruction, Progress monitoring, Teacher preparation
Products: Professional Learning