Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Family Literacy, with Lauren Bardwell and Shiji Mathews
The essence of family literacy is that parents are supported as the first teachers of their children. Family Literacy is the idea that long after diapers and baby steps, our children have so much to learn by watching, observing, and collaborating with trusted adults at home, particularly when it comes to building a strong foundation for reading with confidence. On this episode, we dive deeper into this idea and share the how and why of building and sustain robust family literacy practices.
Topics: Accessibility, Early learning, Equity, Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy, Professional learning, Social emotional learning
Products: MAP Reading Fluency, Professional Learning
Podcast
The Continuing Educator | The Science of Reading, with Lynne Kulich & Natalie Wexler
On this episode, we explore literacy instruction, the science of reading, early childhood literacy, and the differences between skills-focused and knowledge-focused classrooms. Our two guests are passionate leaders in the field: Dr. Lynne Kulich, Director of Early Learning at NWEA, and Natalie Wexler, an education writer and author.
Topics: Early learning, Equity, Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy, Professional learning, Social emotional learning
Products: MAP Reading Fluency, Professional Learning
Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Early literacy and early numeracy, with Cindy Jiban and Tammy Baumann
Letās take a trip to where it all begins, at least academically, with early literacy and numeracy. On this episode, early learning experts Cindy Jiban and Tammy Baumann join us to share classroom strategies to help young learners navigate this important season of life. The discussion touches on the science of reading, why early numeracy sometimes takes a backseat to early literacy, and how teachers early in their career can hit the ground running in these areas.
Topics: Accessibility, Assessment, Early learning, Equity, Literacy, Math, Social emotional learning
Products: MAP Reading Fluency, Professional Learning
Webinar
Professional learning: The key for building student and teacher empowerment with assessment
Learn how educators can avoid thinking of assessments as frustrating events, irrelevant tasks, or disempowering hoops to jump through and create learning experiences around assessment that empower students and foster growth.
Topics: Professional learning
Products: Professional Learning
Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Student Goal Setting, with Chase Nordengren and Amanda Thornton
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: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning
Podcast
The Continuing Educator | Assessment Empowerment, with E. Caroline Wylie and Erin Beard
In this episode, we present the five principles of assessment empowermentālearner context, learning environments and relationships, appropriate purpose, responsive learning cycles, communicationāand offer listeners strategies they can try for each.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning
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: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning