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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BetterLesson
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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Required Reading Reconsidered
Published April 04, 2018
“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
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BetterLesson
Published April 02, 2018
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
Published March 27, 2018
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
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BetterLesson
Published March 20, 2018
(Cambridge, MA and Lindsay, CA– March 19, 2018) – More than three dozen learning facilitators throughout Lindsay Unified School District will receive[...]
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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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