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Webinar
Research meets practice: How educators are responding to the latest COVID-19 impact results
Educators and NWEA researchers offer research-backed suggestions and strategies to help recover unfinished learning and chart a new path forward after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Topics: Education research
Products: MAP Growth
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Podcast
The Continuing Educator | The problem with grading behavior, with Matt Townsley and Chris Thoms
Traditional grading practices typically incorporate non-learning measures such as behavior and effort into an average. Yet by mixing achievement and behavior, we miscommunicate on both accounts. Students and parents still need information on both, but the critical step is to separate reporting, and Dr. Matt Townsley and NWEA User Experience Designer Chris Thoms will share with us both why this is crucial for equity, and how teachers can put it into action.
Topics: Equity
Products: Professional Learning
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Podcast
The Continuing Educator | What is “Grading for Learning?” with Myron Dueck and Brooke Mabry (Ep. 2)
To successfully create the conditions where grading for learning practices may thrive, consider first the importance of ensuring student-centered assessment. Hear from experts on how formative assessment is crucial to cultivating a growth-mindset in a safe, respectful classroom environment, and learn how to invite students to be co-pilots in the assessment and feedback cycle rather than passengers.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning
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Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Why do we grade? with Thomas Guskey and Chase Nordengren
Let’s begin our journey towards better grading practices! Grades have remained a fundamental component of our education system for over a century. Yet despite shifts across so many other areas of educational practice, grading practices have seen little, if any, change to match the demands of modern pedagogy. The pandemic revealed stark flaws in traditional grading protocols and simultaneously presented a profound opportunity for actual change. What should educators, families, and society in general consider around why change is needed and where to begin?
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning
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Case Study
How a professional learning partnership helped support student growth in South Carolina
What happens when reliable data becomes a schoolās driving force? Read this case study to see how one district collaborated with NWEA to create a culture of higher expectations for all.
Topics: Leadership
Products: Professional Learning
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Case Study
In Floyd County, Georgia, professional learning maximizes the value of MAP data
Before Floyd County schools brought in MAP Growth, they lacked formative assessment data at the K-2 level. Read this case study to see how they moved the needle on student achievement and changed their culture around assessment.
Topics: Leadership
Products: MAP Growth, Professional Learning
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Case Study
How a commitment to professional learning helped a Texas district respond to the pandemic
A Texas school district ensured that rollout of MAP Growth was successful, even in the midst of a pandemic, by diversifying professional learning and ensuring stakeholders were involved from the ground up.
Topics: Leadership
Products: Professional Learning