Aly Martinez Wilkinson has been a Certified Facilitator for the past five years and has trained staff and parents regarding Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) Growth and its role in NSCAS. She believes that empowering students to take an active role in their education is key and the best motivation is by showing growth, and that can only be done by using assessments. When students take ownership of what they know and even better, what they need to learn to achieve their goals, it creates a powerful shift in education. She believes students are at the heart of all that we do and helping prepare educators to be assessment literate is imperative to student success.