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Instructional Leadership Focus AreasImprove instruction and learning for teachers and students by building your skills as an instructional leader. |
Leading Through Change: Lead the improvement of teaching, learning, and overall school climate to enhance student achievement and success.
Instructional Coaching: Provide teachers with personalized coaching cycles that support them growing and developing their teaching practice.
Collaborative Professional Learning: Develop a collaborative professional culture to support student-centered teaching and learning. 
Feedback and Observation: Create an authentic, replicable observation and feedback cycle that promotes alignment of student-centered goals and non-evaluative conversation.
Principalship: Equip new leaders to meet the specific demands that come with the first three years of serving as a building principal.
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Inclusive and Responsive Practices Focus AreasBuild an equitable learning community where all students can be supported, celebrated, and successful. |
Social-Emotional Learning: Prepare students with the self-awareness, relational, and decision-making skills they need to succeed in school and in life. 
Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning: Develop learning communities that honor diverse student backgrounds and experiences.
Trauma-Informed Practices: Approach learning with an understanding of the impacts of trauma and adversity on students.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Create inclusive educational ecosystems by examining structures, systems, and beliefs informed by race and identity.
English Learners: Enable all English Learners to grow and thrive in their learning environments with differentiated support.
Students with Disabilities: Support students with disabilities to learn and grow in their learning environments. 
Social-Emotional Learning with Kikori: Utilize the Kikori platform to develop social and emotional intelligence in both students and teachers to build a student-centered classroom learning community. 
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Flexible Instructional Models Focus AreasFind unique ways for all students to learn, communicate, and solve meaningful problems. |
Accelerating Growth: Accelerate student growth and provide differentiated support for all learners to create a student-centered learning environment.
Formative Assessment and Differentiation: Provide students with multiple opportunities to demonstrate their understanding and guide their future learning.
Blended Learning: Create effective and efficient blended learning systems that sustainably drive student learning.
Competency-Based Learning: Create personalized learning paths that allow students to progress toward goals and demonstrate competency in flexible formats.Teachership: Empower new teachers to become high-quality educators through professional learning, mentorship, and leadership support. 
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Curriculum and Academic Content Focus AreasUse learning tools and curriculum to create a student-centered classroom. |
Student-Centered Math: Create transformative mathematics classrooms where students engage in problem-solving, discourse, application, and critical thinking.
Student-Centered Literacy: Develop students’ literacy skills by supporting student ownership of evidence-based reading, writing, speaking, and listening. 
OUR K-8 Math: Integrate the instructional routines and resources embedded in the OUR K-8 Math curriculum. 
IM K-12 Math: Strategically implement the IM K-12 Math curriculum to support student-centered math instruction. 
EL Education: Strategically implement the EL Education K-8 Language Arts curriculum to support student-centered literacy instruction. 
OpenSciEd: Help students make sense of scientific phenomena by harnessing the full power of the OpenSciEd platform.
Odell Education: Understand and implement the Odell Education curriculum to equip students with essential literacy skills.
Kiddom: Support educators to use Kiddom to effectively launch and utilize student-centered curricula in every classroom.
"Through participating with BetterLesson Coaching over the past three years, I have grown so much as an educator in ways that I never thought possible. This took teaching to new levels and PD was targeted specifically to areas that I needed, wanted to work on."
"It’s a great partnership and opportunity for teachers to get 1:1 support/coaching. I really appreciate the amount of time put into looping in principals to share what teachers are working on with school leaders and our central team."
"BetterLesson has been a great resource and support for new teachers and teachers changing assignments that provides more consistent development and feedback than what we can provide."