BetterLesson’s Instructional Coach Featured on Truth for Teachers Podcast
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
Synthesize. Analyze. Sequence. Summarize. Classify.
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Required Reading Reconsidered
“Reading feeds the imagination. It expands horizons and offers new and exciting ways of seeing and making sense of our lives and the world around[...]
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Tackling the Teacher Shortage in Rural Schools
Chattanooga, TN and Cambridge, MA - April 2, 2018 – As part of an effort to combat an acute teacher shortage in rural school districts, the National[...]
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Pulling Back the Curtain: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Choice Board Implementation
So you’ve made a choice board. You value student agency in the classroom, and you’re ready to try this thing. Before you put your board center stage,[...]
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Press Release: Lindsay USD educators to receive one-to-one coaching from BetterLesson
(Cambridge, MA and Lindsay, CA– March 19, 2018) – More than three dozen learning facilitators throughout Lindsay Unified School District will[...]
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Is Technology the Key to Keeping Rural Educators?
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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Two Big Takeaways from AASA’s 2018 National Conference on Education
Each year, AASA bring thousands of district leaders together for its National Conference on Education. The event is an opportunity for[...]
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To Shift or Not to Shift: A Teacher's Progress Towards Using Choice Boards
In my work as an instructional coach at BetterLesson, I support teachers from New York to Montreal to Egypt to make shifts in their practice and try[...]
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3 Ways Coaching Helps Change Habits
For many people, the beginning of a new year marks a time for setting new goals and resolutions. We joke about gyms being packed for a few weeks and[...]
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