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Case Study
Connecting district and state assessments to increase impact ā Alaska Overview
When district and state assessments feel disconnected, value and purpose are questioned. Faced with challenges, Alaska DEED partnered with NWEAĀ® to create an innovative statewide assessment system that would enable districts to continue administering MAPĀ® Growthā¢ while reducing overall testing and increasing the value of summative tests. Learn how Alaska shifted from a stand-alone summative test to a balanced system focused on teachers and students.
Topics: Assessment, Policy & advocacy
Products: State Solutions
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Podcast
The Continuing Educator | What is student agency? With Sarah Brown-Wessling and Anthony Swann
Teachers have tremendously complex jobs and a constantly shifting ecosystem of expectations, yet despite shifts across so many other areas of educational practice, building student agency remains a key desired classroom outcome that educators generally recognize as an area of need. This conversation will give teacher voice to the importance of student agency, varied practitioner views on the opportunities and challenges related to building student agency, and a frame for the season that will prepare listeners to hear about topics ranging from supportive environments and goal setting to meeting the unique needs of students with disabilities and emergent bilinguals.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning
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Webinar
Data and practice: Science-backed strategies to improve early literacy right now
Our early reading experts share straightforward, science-backed strategies educators can use right away to support early learners and improve reading outcomes.
Topics: Literacy
Products: MAP Reading Fluency
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Webinar
Unfinished Learning, Math Identities, and Formative Practice: Access for All
Professional learning content designer Fenesha Hubbard and mathematics content solutions director Tammy Baumann discuss how math identities, formative practices, and MAP Accelerator can all support studentsā math learning journey.
Topics: Math
Products: MAP Accelerator, Professional Learning
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eBook
Classroom approaches for healing from stress and trauma
In this collection of Teach. Learn. Grow. posts, Erin Beard, content design coordinator on NWEAās professional learning team, offers validation, information, strategies, and tools educators can use in any kind of learning space to support their students in social-emotional learning and overcoming toxic stress and trauma.
Topics: Social emotional learning
Products: Professional Learning
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eBook
Approach SY21ā22 with a growth mindset
NWEA research into student learning during the 2020ā21 school year has confirmed what many suspected was true: COVID-19 school closures have exacerbated inequities in education. This eBook details the findings and offers pragmatic advice for reading and math instruction that can help teachers harness the power of growth mindset.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: MAP Growth
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eBook
Math isnāt magic: How to build keen and confident math students
There’s a psychology behind creating confident math students. In this compilation ebook, we will explore the approaches that are most effective for helping students overcome a fear of math.
Topics: Math
Products: Professional Learning, MAP Accelerator