Professional Learning Overview

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Make meaningful, measurable instructional change.

Make meaningful, measurable instructional change.

NWEA Professional Learning is intentionally designed to engage teachers in fostering meaningful, measurable instructional change in pursuit of high-quality, ambitious instruction that improves student outcomes.

NWEA Professional Learning is intentionally designed to engage teachers in fostering meaningful, measurable instructional change in pursuit of high-quality, ambitious instruction that improves student outcomes.

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Turn evidence into action

Develop the knowledge and know-how to leverage high-quality, reliable evidence of learning to inform instruction and decision-making.

Develop the knowledge and know-how to leverage high-quality, reliable evidence of learning to inform instruction and decision-making.

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Effective and classroom relevant

Educators will complete professional learning sessions with action plans and practical strategies they can immediately implement to improve teaching and learning.

Educators will complete professional learning sessions with action plans and practical strategies they can immediately implement to improve teaching and learning.

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Ready where you are

Engage with learning that meets you wherever you are on your path to improving instructional practice.

Engage with learning that meets you wherever you are on your path to improving instructional practice.

Make a lasting impact on student learning and growth

Hear Jacob Bruno, head of Professional Learning at NWEA, speak about helping educators connect NWEA data to “what’s next.”

Authentic, tailor-made solutions to inspire and empower educators

Authentic, tailor-made solutions to inspire and empower educators

NWEA Professional Learning provides flexible learning opportunities for any setting—on site, virtual, small group, or 1:1—designed around your unique goals, challenges, and scheduling needs.

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Traditional learning

Onsite, face-to-face session with consultant

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Virtual learning

Live instruction through our online portal

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On-demand learning

Learn on your own time at your own pace

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Blended learning

Combine delivery formats to meet team needs

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Instructional coaching

Keep the learning going by adding collaborative instructional coaching for teachers

MAP Growth Professional Learning

Make meaningful, measurable instructional change and help to ensure a successful implementation with professional learning experiences designed by experienced educators to bring curriculum, instruction, and assessment into alignment.

MAP Reading Fluency Professional Learning

Dedicated NWEA professional learning can ensure a successful MAP® Reading Fluency™ with Coach implementation, helping you benefit from quality assessments, insightful reports, and a dedicated tutoring solution to improve reading growth for K–5 students.

Other workshop offerings

Content-Focused Professional Learning is designed to enhance educators’ content knowledge and strengthen their pedagogical practice across literacy.

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Content-Focused Professional Learning is designed to enhance educators’ content knowledge and strengthen their pedagogical practice across mathematics.

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This series explores supportive environments within the context of instruction to help educators create more equitable teaching and learning experiences and address systemic challenges that have limited or blocked sustained achievement.

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This series features a planned, ongoing process that teaches educators to develop the mindset, systems, and practices that empower the student as the center of learning and that are key to changing student outcomes and using assessments as part of a strategy to achieve growth.

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About the team

Averaging 25 years of teaching and administrative experience, our professional learning consultants are veteran practitioners familiar with the peaks and valleys of the education landscape. They live and work in the urban, rural, and suburban communities you call home and have the keen insight to help your team set goals and determine a clear path forward.

My team’s conversations shifted …to a focus on … figuring out how to help teachers address the major gaps we were seeing. It was like a light bulb went off for the entire team at the same time.


TAMMY TAYLOR
Principal at Great Falls Elementary School
Great Falls, SC

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