Use this strategic planning tool to identify your district’s key areas of need and resources that support learning for students affected by COVID learning interruptions.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the MAP Growth course specific math assessments. Learn what types of tests are available, how the assessment provides answers to important questions about student achievement and growth, how it helps educators make more confident decisions.  

We assess our students every day. But do we always know why? In this e-book, Erin Beard, content design coordinator on NWEA’s 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.

This brief is a response to Paul Zavitkovsky’s paper titled “Data Rich/Information Poor,” and includes NWEA’s high-level comments and concerns regarding Mr. Zavitkovsky’s claims. The brief highlights five areas that challenge the strength, validity, and quality of some of Mr. Zavitkosky’s “findings,” and as such, provide context for interpreting his results with caution and scrutiny.

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.

Instructional coaching can have a major impact on instructional practices, student learning, and teacher retention, but it has to be planned and implemented thoughtfully. Here are six best practices.

Empower students with a healthy, collaborative classroom culture of learning
This suite focuses on aligning the mindsets, systems, and practices that sustain an assessment system centered on empowering students and offers educators a framework for appropriately using assessments and their results to inform critical instruction-related decisions.