Testing The Waters: Alternatives To Consider If You Don’t Want To Jump Right Into Choice Boards
Published May 29, 2018
We are nearing the school year’s end, and we are starting to think about summer: sun, time off, and swimming! This year we jumped right into refining[...]
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Fill In The Gaps: From a Classroom Challenge to a Personalized Learning Strategy
Published May 22, 2018
We hear the words “Student Centered Learning” often these days. Understandably so, it is crucial that well into the 21st Century, we finally make it[...]
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5 Reasons Why My Students and I Became Addicted to Using Exit Tickets
Published May 15, 2018
This guest post was written by Lindsay Rice, 5th grade science teacher at Nations Ford Elementary in Charlotte, NC. Lindsay is a BetterLesson[...]
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Tips and Tools To Support Your Students To Take The Lead
Published May 09, 2018
Seeing our students take what we give them and run with it is one of the most rewarding parts of teaching. Ultimately, they finish the race alone,[...]
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Three Reasons Why Instructional Coaching Is More Effective Than Any Other PD
Published May 03, 2018
If you are an administrator deciding what professional development will most effectively build your teachers’ instructional capacity, you know that[...]
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Backwards Planning: A Powerful Strategy for Instructional Coaching
Published May 01, 2018
Do you feel like your teachers are losing momentum as the year winds down? As instructional coaches, we start the year supporting our teachers to[...]
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Five Things I Learned While Working with a PD Coach
Published April 23, 2018
A conversation between John Wesley Pope, a first-year teacher at Washington County High School and Valerie Librizzi, his BetterLesson coach. Wesley[...]
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Tips and Tools For Choice Board Management
Published April 16, 2018
Which activity should I choose? What do I do when I’m done? Can you help me?
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BetterLesson’s Instructional Coach Featured on Truth for Teachers Podcast
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Published April 12, 2018
One of the toughest parts of teaching students who exhibit disruptive behaviors is a feeling of helplessness for how to best support them. Teachers[...]
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Tech Supports for Authentic Language Development
Published April 10, 2018
Synthesize. Analyze. Sequence. Summarize. Classify.
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