Milestones

What We Learned from the Wild Zebra Pilot

By ERB Team / October 20, 2026

What happens after the assessment window closes? For school leaders, the opportunity is to turn assessment insights into meaningful, day-to-day learning experiences.  That’s the idea behind E3n’s partnership with Wild Zebra, an AI learning platform for students in grades 3–8 that connects CTP and Milestones assessment insights with personalized practice. Through questions and conversation, students explain their reasoning while teachers gain visibility into how they approach problems.  During the 2025–26 school year, E3n sponsored an independent evaluation of the Wild Zebra pilot to better understand how educators use the platform. In our recent webinar, AI, Student Learning, and the Classroom: […] read more

How to Interpret the New Milestones Norms

By Glenn Milewski / September 14, 2022

After two years of administration, ERB determined that it collected sufficient data to construct norms based on actual Milestones test-takers. These norms better reflect students’ performance on Milestones and are more useful to members interpreting results. […] read more

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ERB Conference 2023 to Feature New Tools that Support Whole Child Education

“Each child is a physical, mental and spiritual being, interlocked and intertwined, with each dimension significantly affecting the other two.” William Litterick More than 50 years ago, ERB President William Litterick wrote that assessments of […] read more

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