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Responsive Math Practices Professional Learning Overview
Master math practices that maximize achievement and growth
This math suite provides educators with a deep understanding of content and research-based instructional practices, along with ways to apply that understanding to their unique grade-level instructional needs and content standards.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources, Math, Professional learning
Products: Professional Learning
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MAP Growth Professional Learning Overview
Turn learning evidence into instructional action
Activate MAPĀ® Growthā¢ with professional learning experiences that build basic product-use capacity, hone assessment literacy, improve goal setting and responsive instructional planning, and build deeper data competency.
Topics: Assessment, Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy, Math, Professional learning
Products: MAP Growth, Professional Learning
Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Comedy and the Classroom, with Nicholas Joe
Kailey chats with actor, comedian, and NWEA professional learning lead consultant Nicholas Joe about how, why, and when teachers get laughs in their classroom. Along the way they discuss strategies like how to pivot in the classroom with a āYes, andā¦ā mindset and how to utilize comedy in your lesson planning. And yes, Nick gets Kailey to do improv!
Topics: Equity, Instructional strategy & resources, Leadership, Professional learning, Social emotional learning
Products: Professional Learning
Podcast
What a great crowd for our first live show! After discussing their Georgia roots, Jacob and Kailey chat with their guests about choosing the best summer professional learning opportunities and what gets them motivated at a conference. Next, they turn to the new school year and discuss the biggest challenges ahead, including how to scale success across schools and districts.Ā Kailey also asks a few of her signature lightning-round, light-hearted questions.Ā Finally, stay tuned for the audience Q&A at the end of the show for your daily dose of teacher inspiration. There may have been some tears of joy in the roomā¦
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources, Leadership, Professional learning, School improvement, Social emotional learning
Products: Professional Learning
eBook
Assessment empowerment 101: What it is, why it matters, and how to do it
We assess our students every day. But do we always know why? In this e-book, Erin Beard, content design coordinator on NWEAās professional learning team, tells you everything you need to know about assessment empowerment, from what it is to exactly how to bring it to life in your classroom.
Topics: Professional learning
Products: Professional Learning
Fact Sheet
Tools for fostering early word recognition: embedded mnemonics samples
One hurdle for young students who are beginning to read is learning letter names, shapes, and sounds. To help students master these arbitrary pairings between letter shape and letter sound, using letter-embedded mnemonics has been found to be more effective than using letters on their own or letters accompanied by a picture. Try out this sample set of embedded mnemonics with your early learners!
Topics: Early learning, Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy, Professional learning
Products: Professional Learning
Guide
Classroom ready: Simple, impactful ways to engage your teachers
Like the students they serve, every educator enters the classroom in varying states of readiness. Education leaders must ensure each teacher has the tools, professional learning, and guidance they need to be successful. This detailed guide examines how the components of an NWEA Solution can provide the support teachers demand and deserve.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources, Assessment, Early learning, Leadership, Literacy, Math, Professional learning
Products: MAP Growth, Professional Learning