Biographical Info

Areas We Address

A day school would engage with us if they are looking to develop leaders and teachers to:

• Retain and recruit successful educators
• Develop social-emotional learning skills in students and educators
• Create equitable learning environments that support all students needs
• Adopt and implement new curriculum
• Support new and veteran teachers
• Empower instructional leaders, mentors, and principals as change agents and executives
• Reduce teacher stress/burnout/lack of confidence
• Address the challenges of COVID: unfinished learning, trauma, and SEL
• Address the needs of specialized populations in a students-first, equitable way: English Learners and Special Education
• Build leadership capacity throughout the district

Expected Outcomes

Working with us, a school should expect to…

Accomplish success in any of our four focus areas, which affect every minute of a student, teacher and leader’s day:

• Instructional leadership
• Inclusive and responsive practices
• Flexible instructional models
• Curriculum and academic content

Key Activities

BetterLesson helps schools achieve their goals by…

Implementing professional learning solutions centered on student outcomes through differentiated learning experiences and researched-backed pedagogy.

BetterLesson’s learning solutions include:

• BetterLesson Coaching: 1:1 job-embedded, virtual coaching, offers a flexible, personalized experience that addresses educators’ individual needs. Coaching provides educators of all levels, new teachers through veteran leaders, with the opportunity to connect in a safe and confidential environment with a trusted expert to address the most pressing challenges facing their schools and students.Scalable and actionable, coaching for teachers and leaders that helps create student-centered classrooms utilizing new learning strategies and teaching practices inaction that results in positive learning environments.
• BL Learning Walks allow leaders to monitor progress toward target outcomes, acknowledge and celebrate shifts in practice while identifying areas to prioritize targeted support for continuous professional learning. They provide focused, non-evaluative frameworks to support school leaders in identifying strengths and surface areas of opportunity within a specific topic in an ongoing cycle of professional learning.
• BetterLesson Workshops connect a cohort of educators, either virtually or in-person, reinforce key pedagogical theories, introduce new strategies for instructional practice, help integrate new curricula and bring new learning models to implement in their classrooms.

Setting Expectations

To ensure the impact of our support, we expect schools to:

• Participate in a 30 minute virtual Coach Launching session via Zoom – Dates/times to be determined
• Participate in Differentiation workshop (see below) – 2 hours online or 5 hours in person; location TBD
• Attend 30 minute virtual coaching sessions every two weeks for 8 sessions over a 5 month period. Additional sessions may be available upon completion
• Review the workspace your BetterLesson coach will design with you

To ensure the impact of our support, we expect administrators to:

• Select a Focus Area from the BetterLesson Focus Areas
• Provide a roster of participants which includes their emails, grade and subject level or admin responsibilities
• Ensure successful implementation and communication with BetterLesson Support team and their own educators of the guidelines which consist of:
  • Participating in a 30 minute virtual Coach Launching session via Zoom – Dates/times to be determined
  • Participating in Differentiation workshop (see below) – 2 hours online or 5 hours in person; location TBD
  • Attending 30 minute virtual coaching sessions every two weeks for 8 sessions over a 5 month period
  • Reviewing the workspace your BetterLesson coach will design with you

To ensure the impact of our support, we expect classroom teachers to:

• Participate in a 30 minute virtual Coach Launching session via Zoom – Dates/times to be determined
• Participate in Differentiation workshop (see below) – 2 hours online or 5 hours in person; location TBD
• Attend 30 minute virtual coaching sessions every two weeks for 8 sessions over a 5 month period. Additional sessions may be available upon completion
• Review the workspace your BetterLesson coach will design with you