Katya Rucker, BetterLesson Director of Rural Partnerships
Recent Posts
The Support that Keeps Rural Teachers in the Classroom
Published January 08, 2019
Retaining highly effective teachers is both a challenge and a goal for rural school and district leaders. Research points to one key factor that[...]
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How to Maximize (and Limit) Coach Effectiveness
Published September 11, 2018
In an Edweek blog post, Dr. Peter Dewitt, the author of several books on school leadership, asked if instructional coaching has become a dumping[...]
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Four Indicators of Strong Instructional Coaching
Published August 09, 2018
Effective instructional coaching is the kind of sustained, collaborative, classroom-aligned professional learning that creates tangible outcomes in[...]
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Three Factors that Make or Break Instructional Coaching
Published July 03, 2018
“Reforms are not self-implementing,” say researchers from The Education Alliance at Brown University. “Nor do they penetrate predictably or[...]
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Is Technology the Key to Keeping Rural Educators?
Published March 06, 2018
Rural school districts have come to a crossroads. Recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers remains a persistent challenge and even a crisis[...]
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The Six Downfalls of Traditional Professional Development
Published January 23, 2018
Out of every mode of support we pour into students, high quality instruction has proven to have the greatest impact on their achievement. The buck[...]
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