Professional Development for Teachers

Providing flexible professional learning experiences for your teachers.

Personalized Professional Learning to Support Teachers

Support both teachers and leaders with in-depth workshops, 1:1 instructional coaching, self-directed courses, and more. Together, we build a professional learning plan with differentiated learning experiences paced throughout the school year to meet the goals of your district, support all educators, and make meaningful changes for all students.

Resources to Support Professional Learning for Teachers

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Best Practice for Differentiated Instruction

Learn effective strategies and supports district administrators can provide that help teachers implement and manage best practice for differentiated instruction.

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Meeting Students Where They Are

Get the guide to learn strategies for different learning environments to support all students — especially students with disabilities.

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Analyzing Student Data to Inform Instruction

Explore user-friendly data collection tools to transform student data into instructional next steps.

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Learning Experiences in the BetterLesson Ecosystem

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BL Connect
Self-directed courses and high-quality asynchronous content create awareness of a wide range of topics.

Workshops
In-person or virtual collaborative sessions for educators to learn new practices, develop actionable next steps, and create a plan to measure the efficacy of new practices in the classroom.

Coaching
Virtual coaching offers new teachers support from expert instructional coaches who help build and sustain new practices through the Try-Measure-Learn method.

Learning Walks
Non-evaluative classroom observations for leaders to analyze trends in teacher practice and create a plan to support all educators with continued professional learning.

BL Lab
The BL Lab offers administrators professional learning data and all educators a full library of self-directed BL Connect courses filled with research-backed strategies, tools, and resources. Access content, track participation, and measure outcomes of professional learning in one centralized platform.

The Phases of Effective Professional Learning

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Launch

Bring teachers together at a collaborative in-person launch experience. 

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Planning

BetterLesson instructional coaches work one-on-one with teachers to explore new practices, apply them in the classroom, and measure the impact on students.

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Assess Progress

Leaders engage in Learning Walks, a non-evaluative observation process, to make data-informed decisions about the next steps they can take to support teachers.

 
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Targeted Support

Educators collaborate at Virtual Workshops that work towards specific, targeted learning outcomes. 

Our Partners in Professional Learning

Our mission is to ensure that educators and administrators have the tools to support every student through a deep understanding of their needs, behaviors, and backgrounds and build a connection to the content and curricula in the classroom. To best serve all educators, we support top-rated curricula with high-quality content and partner with innovators and change makers in education.

Our partners include...

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"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."

Sara Schonfeld
K-2 Teacher, Magen David Yeshivah, NY

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"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."

Kristen Watkins
Director of Personalized Learning, Dallas ISD, TX

 

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"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."

Todd Prusator
Superintendent, Rochelle CCSD, IL

 
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