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Nadja Young is an Education Specialist working within SAS’ State and Local Government practice. She supports education partnerships for SAS EVAAS for K-12 through her curriculum and instruction experience, and by serving as the practice’s primary liaison to the education community. Prior to joining SAS, Nadja was a high school Career and Technical Education teacher certified by the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. Nadja taught in the Wake County Public School System in North Carolina, as well as Colorado’s Douglas County School District. During her time as an educator, Nadja served as a Varsity Dance Team Coach, JV Cheerleading Coach and DECA Advisor. She chaired the School Improvement Committee, led professional development activities, and contracted with the NC Department of Public Instruction to write curriculum and assessments.
Nadja holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing Management from Virginia Tech and a Master of Arts in Secondary Education. A Virginia transplant, she enjoys spending time with her husband, daughters, and Rhodesian Ridgeback dog in their new North Carolina home.
Recent Posts
Busting myths of education value-added analysis, Part 3: Simple growth measures provide better information to educators.
Welcome to Part 3 of the value-added Myth Busters blog series. I have heard a variation of this many times. “Why shouldn’t educators just use a ... Read More
Busting myths of education value-added analysis, Part 2: It is harder to show growth with high-achieving students
Welcome to Part 2 of the value-added Myth Busters blog series…have you heard this one before? Educators serving high-achieving students are often concerned that their ... Read More
Busting myths of education value-added analysis, Part 1: You must control for demographics
In the past five years, value-added models have been increasingly adopted by states to support various teaching effectiveness policies. As educators make the paradigm shift ... Read More
Data-driven education books make great holiday gifts for educators. Yes, really.
As the holidays approach, we’ll all have some down-time to catch up on personal and professional reading, hopefully cozied up by a fire with a ... Read More
Education reform in Houston: Together we can. Whatever it takes. No excuses.
K-12 education reform and policy has seen a recent surge in the cinema with "Waiting for Superman," "The Lottery," and this fall’s "Won't Back Down.” ... Read More
Transitioning value-added and growth models to new assessments
This summer’s education conferences have been dominated by sessions discussing the “next generation,” Common Core aligned assessments in English and mathematics. As 44 states plan ... Read More
Semantics of student growth, test score discussions create anxiety amongst educators
“Ohio links teacher pay to test scores” was the headline of a recent CNN School of Thought blog. Yikes! With a headline like that, teachers ... Read More
NC teachers’ voices regarding use of student growth in educator evaluations
In 2011-2012, North Carolina became one of many states to restructure their educator evaluation system to incorporate student growth. The NC Department of Public Instruction commissioned the ... Read More
Communicating value-added results through community engagement and partnership
In the summer of 2010, the LA Times made national waves by publishing Los Angeles Unified School District’s teacher names and value-added estimates. The New ... Read More
Value-added myth busting, Part 4: Value-added models cannot measure growth of students who have missing data or are highly mobile