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Cheryl Belknap June 7, 2018

What Makes Coaching Effective? 7 Tips for School Administrators

In-school coaching is timely, actionable, and an investment in making continuous improvement a reality in your building....
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Cheryl Belknap, Ryan Humphrey June 5, 2018

Using Video to Grow Your Teaching

Recording a lesson in order to grow your teaching is quick, relatively easy— and it works!...
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Julie Mason, Darcy Mueller May 29, 2018

Testing The Waters: Alternatives To Consider If You Don’t Want To Jump Right Into Choice Boards

Read about alternatives to the Choice Board Model that are more structured and provide more guidance for students....
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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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Lindsay Rice May 15, 2018

5 Reasons Why My Students and I Became Addicted to Using Exit Tickets

Learn how exit tickets can give teachers immediate, actionable data to personalize learning....
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Julie Mason May 9, 2018

Tips and Tools To Support Your Students To Take The Lead

Learn how using choice boards enables students to learn tools to be more efficient and take ownership over their own learning....
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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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