BetterLesson Teaches Graduate Class at Stanford University

This past Thursday, I had the pleasure of delivering a lecture to the “No Teacher Left Behind” class at the Stanford D. School.   I hadn’t planned or delivered a lesson in over nine months, so it was exciting to be back in front of a classroom (with substantially older students). 

 

The class began with a discussion of the difficulties that K-12 teachers currently encounter trying to collaborate within and across instructional communities. We then transitioned into a dialogue about BetterLesson’s technical platform and the iterative journey that it has taken over the past year.   The students asked tough questions and provided great feedback that will inform future interface decisions.

 

 

As you can (almost) see in the picture above, this was also an opportunity to use BetterLesson to structure my lecture notes and aggregate all of my instructional resources in one place. One of the cool, unintended consequences of this process is that BetterLesson has turned out to be a great way for teachers to actually deliver instruction to their students. It was exciting to put this into practice.

 

A few hours after the class ended, I received the following email from a Teach For America alum and Stanford PhD student: