Newsela

Topics:

• Newsela Meaningful Tech Integration for  Teachers and Leaders

• Newsela Scaffolds that Address Academic Gaps for Teachers and Leaders

• Supporting English Learners with Newsela

Overview: 

Newsela is an instructional content platform that curates high-quality, authentic fiction and non-fiction texts from the world’s most trusted content providers to support K-12 educators and students to build their content knowledge and literacy skills.  Through its platform, Newsela allows teachers to personalize articles and tasks for each student based on the students' needs. And, through its data analysis features, Newsela provides a way for teachers to assess student progress and supports school and district leaders to determine school-wide instructional needs and prioritize professional development.

How We Support Teachers with Newsela:

Newsela has a variety of tools and resources that empower teachers to build student-centered classrooms, and BetterLesson supports teachers in determining how and when to use those features in order to meet the needs of all of their learners and build personalized, data-driven, student-centered classroom practices. 

BetterLesson is uniquely qualified to support teachers to effectively use Newsela because, through a partnership with Newsela, BetterLesson has supported Master Teachers and Newsela Certified Educators to develop 100 K-12  strategies across subject areas focusing on how best to utilize Newsela's features and tools in order to increase students' reading engagement and literacy skill development.