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Coaching

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Milana Lazareva, Romain Bertrand May 22, 2018

Fill In The Gaps: From a Classroom Challenge to a Personalized Learning Strategy

Read an interview outlining how one teacher worked with a BetterLesson coach to empower her students to own their formative assessment data....
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Julie Mason May 3, 2018

Three Reasons Why Instructional Coaching Is More Effective Than Any Other PD

Learn why personalized, ongoing coaching is one of the most effective tools to help teachers implement new strategies and tools in their classrooms....
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Kelly Kennefick May 1, 2018

Backwards Planning: A Powerful Strategy for Instructional Coaching

Ensure that vision and goals are at the forefront of the instructional coaching process with backwards planning....
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Valerie Librizzi, John Wesley Pope April 23, 2018

Five Things I Learned While Working with a PD Coach

Read an interview to see how one teacher used instructional coaching to build his students’ literacy skills in his agriculture classes....
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BetterLesson April 2, 2018

Tackling the Teacher Shortage in Rural Schools

The National Rural Education Association (NREA) is partnering with BetterLesson to deliver one-to-one professional development to educators in some of the country’s most remote regions....
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BetterLesson March 20, 2018

Press Release: Lindsay USD Educators to Receive One-to-One Coaching from BetterLesson

Read how Lindsay Unified School District educators received one-to-one coaching from BetterLesson instructional coaches....
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Romain Bertrand February 7, 2018

3 Ways Coaching Helps Change Educator Habits

Discover how coaching helps change educator habits by providing these valuable resources. ...
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Lindsay Rice January 29, 2018

You Taught it. They Didn’t Get it. Now What? 5 Strategies to Use When Re-Teaching

Learn five strategies to re-teach content to help students learn, stay engaged, and dramatically improve their mastery of skills, concepts, and content....
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Story Hinckley November 22, 2017

One-on-One Online Mentoring Fills a Niche

In the face of teacher shortages, one solution gaining more traction: teachers helping each other online....
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