Infographic
02.18.21
Welcome to NWEA. We’re excited to partner with you to help all the students in your school or district reach their potential. We’ll be at your side on day 1, through your first test event, and beyond. We can’t wait to see what your teachers and students can accomplish together.
Get the to-do listTopics:Teacher preparation
Products:MAP Growth
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:专业学习
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:专业学习
Podcast
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:专业学习
Podcast
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:专业学习
Podcast
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:专业学习
Podcast
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:专业学习
Fact Sheet
In relentless pursuit of our mission to help all kids learn, the Policy and Advocacy team at NWEA elevates five key areas in which we seek to influence decision-making: informing the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, driving equity and innovation in assessments, supporting the reimagining of accountability, building and supporting a diverse educator workforce, and expanding opportunities to learn.
Topics:Empowering educators,Equity,ESSA,Growth,Informing instruction,Innovations in reporting & assessment,Insights and reports,Measurement & scaling,Policy & Advocacy,Research,School improvement,Teacher preparation
