NWEA Content-Focused Professional Learning (2024)

Develop the content area knowledge and pedagogical practices needed to master the fundamentals of literacy instruction.

Content-Focused Professional Learning from NWEA is designed to enhance educators’ content knowledge and strengthen their pedagogical practice across literacy.

Sustained, content-driven learning to evolve your professional practice

With Content-Focused Professional Learning, you can:

Improve instructional decision-making with a focus on responsive teaching and learning
Explore evidence-based methods and practices derived from a strong body of internal and external research
Foster ambitious and equitable instructional practices
Learn skills and methods that work with any high-quality curriculum or assessment data

Content-Focused Professional Learning workshops

The literacy suite provide teachers 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.

Literacy Practices suite

Deepen pedagogical content knowledge for early literacy instruction grounded in the converging evidence from science of reading research. This 6-hour offering helps K–2 educators implement effective literacy instruction through accessible, classroom- and evidence-based practices for a sounds-first approach.

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Fluency is a bridge between students’ decoding of connected text and determining meaning. Designed for K–5 teachers, reading specialists, instructional coaches, and principals, this offering provides time to learn classroom strategies aligned to reading science and examine the variables affecting reading fluency. Participants will learn activities to increase fluency for every phase of reading, from beginning readers who need to build automaticity with letter sounds, to accurate word readers building text reading fluency, to highly skilled readers’ who are improving their fluency in reading comprehension. These practices, aligned with research in reading and cognitive science, can help educators increase students’ word recognition and comprehension fluency across the grade bands.  

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Fluency plays an integral role in bridging students’ decoding to automatic reading of connected text to determine meaning. In this offering, participants will discover strategies to help students increase fluency, advance their pedagogical content knowledge by analyzing reading fluency components, and examine the variables impacting reading fluency.

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Beginning with a solid understanding of what is at the heart of today’s college- and career-ready standards will provide educators with essential knowledge for instructional practice. In these foundational sessions, participants will gain a deep understanding of the key shifts in literacy, how they progress, and the development of a classroom culture that supports discourse and builds a culturally responsive environment. This provides both teachers and administrators with a foundation for the upcoming content within the workshop series if a school or district deems it appropriate.

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Our brains are wired to learn spoken language, but learning to read does not happen the same way! By teaching reading in ways that align with how the brain acquires, processes, and retains letters, sounds, and language, we support all students’ reading success. In this offering, participants will learn how students learn to read, the multiple components that make up reading, and how to structure their reading instruction to align to the science of reading research.

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Meet the needs of your team with on-site or virtual delivery options.

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On-site learning

Face-to-face session with a consultant

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Virtual learning

Live instruction through our online portal

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What’s next in your learning journey?

Data to Support Instruction Professional Learning Series

Whether you’re just getting started or looking to hone your skills, these professional learning experiences offer a comprehensive look at each solution in the MAP® Suite of assessments. From administration to applying results, get the tools and knowledge you need to support lesson planning, interventions, goal setting, and more.

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Responsive Teaching and Learning Professional Learning Series

This series features a planned, ongoing process that teaches educators to develop the mindset, systems, and practices that empower the student as the center of the learning and are key to changing student outcomes and using assessments as part of a strategy to achieve growth.

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Creating Supportive Environments Professional Learning Series

The Equity-Empowered Learning suite in this series focuses on equity as it relates to access to content for students and teachers and high-quality instruction. It makes equitable teaching practices tangible and highly actionable on a daily basis by heightening awareness of the various equity tie-ins to instruction and identifying data practices and instructional moves that allow for greater equity and improved student outcomes.

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Instructional coaching for teachers

Continue the learning from any of our offerings by adding collaborative coaching. A highly qualified thought partner and practitioner will lead teachers through an inquiry-based coaching cycle to deliver a highly responsive and contextualized experience that takes the learning from theory to practice, using evidence-based and research-driven methods to build teacher capacity, efficacy, and instructional skill.

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Learning and evaluation services

This set of tailored tools and services measures the impact of professional learning on participants, school systems, and students. Beginning with a comprehensive needs assessment, our evaluation services are fully integrated with the planning and delivery of your professional learning to ensure the unique learning needs of your district are being met.

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