Strategies To Begin Again This School Year
There is nothing like the possibility of a new school year. One of my favorite parts of teaching was the ability to begin again each September. No[...]
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BetterLesson Launches New Online Instructional Strategies to Inspire and Engage Teachers, Administrators
Ready-to-use resources focus on student-centered teaching to complement its award-winning lesson plan portal
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How to Maximize (and Limit) Coach Effectiveness
In a recent Edweek blog post, Dr. Peter Dewitt, the author of several books on school leadership, asked if instructional coaching has become a[...]
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Classroom Management Reconsidered
When I was in elementary school, my parents told me that when I had to go to the bathroom, I should ask my teacher for permission to leave the room.[...]
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It Takes a Whole Community: Advancing from 23% to 85% of Students Showing Growth
How a Rural District Drove Student Growth through BetterLesson Coaching New Buffalo, Michigan -- In a town with a population of just under 2,000[...]
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What “mastery-based” can look like in the classroom
In Molly Nealeigh’s fourth-grade math classroom at Piney Grove Elementary School in North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, students[...]
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The Building Blocks of a Mastery Based Learning System (Part 2)
In Molly’s third and final post, she shares the rest of the elements that make up her Mastery Based Learning System. If you want to catch up on why[...]
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The Building Blocks of a Mastery Based Learning System (Part 1)
In her first post, Students Drive Their Learning: What Is A Mastery Based Learning System, 4th grade math teacher, Molly Nealeigh shared why she[...]
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Four Indicators of Strong Instructional Coaching
Effective instructional coaching is the kind of sustained, collaborative, classroom-aligned professional learning that creates tangible outcomes in[...]
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