Four Tips for Making this School Year Your Best One Yet
Published August 27, 2019
The new school year is upon us! It feels like just a few weeks ago we were saying goodbye to students and colleagues and heading into a summer of[...]
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Top Ways to Get Students Speaking in the Target Language (Part 2)
Published July 03, 2019
One of the tenets of world language education is encouraging interpersonal conversation, but this is often easier said than done between two[...]
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Top Ways to Get Students Speaking in the Target Language (Part 1)
Published June 27, 2019
As much as world language teachers spend much of their curriculum developing 3 out of the 4 modes of communication (reading, writing, and listening),[...]
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Creating a Student-Centered Routine for In-Class Presentations
Published June 20, 2019
Learning to speak in front of others and express ourselves clearly are not only Language Arts skills but skills that are applicable to all content[...]
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How My Coach Helped Me Transition to a Student-Centered Classroom
Published June 13, 2019
I have been working with my BetterLesson coach, Valerie, for the past two years to make my Jewish Studies classes more student-centered by focusing[...]
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Strategies for Developing a Growth Mindset in Early Childhood Classrooms
Published June 06, 2019
Confident, curious, and happy. These are character goals that I set for myself as an educator, and qualities I hope to instill and support in my[...]
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Five Lessons I Learned Becoming a Blended Learning Coach
Published May 30, 2019
As a teacher, it became evident to me early on that my instruction could be more relevant to my students and more personalized to their needs. And as[...]
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"Talk it Out!: How Designing My Own Math Strategy Made a Difference for my 3rd Graders"
Published May 23, 2019
I am a firm believer that with the right coaching structure around them, most educators will relish the opportunity to creatively design solutions to[...]
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Exciting News! BetterLesson Partners with Newsela to Develop New Literacy Strategies
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Published May 09, 2019
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! We hope you’re being showered with praise and acknowledgment for the work you do each day to help every student[...]
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Infographic: Tackling Teacher Retention with Instructional Coaching
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BetterLesson
Published April 16, 2019
Reducing teacher turnover has become one of the greatest challenges for school and district leaders in recent years. This is particularly true for[...]
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