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Instructional Strategies

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Krystal Bankston September 25, 2018

How to Give your Students Content-Based, Real-World Experiences Using Project-Based Learning

Increase student autonomy by providing opportunities to address the problems around them....
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BetterLesson September 18, 2018

Strategies To Begin Again This School Year

If you are looking for some new ideas for how to kick off this school year, we have rounded up BetterLesson coaches’ favorite back-to-school strategies. ...
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BetterLesson September 18, 2018

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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Molly Nealeigh August 28, 2018

What “Mastery-Based” Can Look Like in the Classroom

By utilizing the Mastery-Based Learning System, students spend most of the time studying at their own pace on skills they identify that they need to improve....
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Molly Nealeigh August 21, 2018

The Building Blocks of a Mastery-Based Learning System – Part 2

The final integral pieces to creating a Mastery-Based Learning System in your classroom. ...
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Julie Mason July 23, 2018

Making your Coaching Experience Impactful

Learn strategies to ensure educators maximize learning impact during professional learning sessions....
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Molly Nealeigh July 1, 2018

What Is A Mastery-Based Learning System?

Develop a mastery-based learning system in the classroom and the analyze the benefits therein. ...
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Cheryl Belknap June 19, 2018

Two Effective Ways To Wrap Up Your School Year

Wrap up the school year with two activities designed to assess and reflect on classroom culture....
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Katie Fortin June 12, 2018

Using Seesaw to Expand the Walls of the Classroom

Read how a kindergarten teacher worked with her BetterLesson coach to bring the French language into students’ homes and the world around them....
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