NWEA Winter Growth

It has taken a long time to post this tree, but I wanted to give you all a visual of the amount of growth your students have made in the first half of their school year. This tree is a representation of our NWEA growth over the course of our third grade year. It is a Spruce tree that we add needle bunches to for every child who makes growth on their NWEA assessments. 

You may not be able to tell but there are two different shades of green on the tree, the first shade represents the 23 students we started the year with. Each student got a pine needle bunch to begin the year with.

The second shade of green shows our Fall NWEA growth. There are three assessments and each student had the opportunity to earn a needle bunch for each one if they made growth over the summer in reading, math, and language. This is not common because in the summer students aren't in school full time as you all now. 

The blue pine bunches are the coolest part of the tree. They are our winter NWEA growth. Students again had the opportunity to earn 3 needle bunches, one for each test, and almost the entire class did. We had 90% growth on all three assessments this winter and are very excited about it. Look how blue our tree is!

As for our spring NWEA goal, students are aiming for that 100% growth this time. We talked about the 90% and we are determined to get all 100% there this time. Wish us luck and help us work hard to get there! What color do you think our spring needle bunches should be??