Master Teacher Spotlight: Mary Ellen Kanthack
In my work as an instructional coach at BetterLesson I continue to mine the BetterLesson ELA, Math, Blended and Science Master Teacher Project[...]
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What Teachers and Students Can Accomplish with Project-Based Learning
In our second year working together, Liora Chessin declared she wanted her fifth graders to critically engage with history, a skill set educators[...]
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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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BetterLesson sustaining success among teachers at Groton Elementary
Teaching is a career that is universally praised and seen as virtuous, but often, people don’t realize the rigors and difficulties attached to the[...]
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What Is A Mastery-Based Learning System?
Before I develop a mastery-based learning system in my classroom, I felt like I could never give my students everything they needed. I ran out of[...]
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How to Use Empathy to Address Plagiarism
This sounds familiar… That was the thought running through my head as I read a sentence in Laura’s* essay on To Kill a Mockingbird. Like, really[...]
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Design Studio Stories: Manassas City Public Schools
History of the Partnership In 2015 the Manassas City Public Schools purchased tablets for high school teachers. Eager to find a partner to support[...]
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Building the Coaching Relationship
What is the best approach for coaching teachers? Is it better to coach a group or individuals? Is there a difference between virtual coaching and[...]
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Three Factors that Make or Break Instructional Coaching
“Reforms are not self-implementing,” say researchers from The Education Alliance at Brown University. “Nor do they penetrate predictably or[...]
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