{"id":295996,"date":"2026-09-29T05:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295996\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T05:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:48:08","slug":"basd-approves-coaching-services-for-teachers-leadership-to-improve-instruction-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295996\/","title":{"rendered":"BASD approves coaching services for teachers, leadership to improve instruction | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/meetings.keystoneagenda.com\/Documents\/WebViewer\/3930?snapshotUri=Org3930%2FMeeting764014%2FAgenda%2FUnit%2FPublic.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bethlehem Area School District Board of Directors<\/a> on Monday night approved a deal for instructional coaching support.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Regional Education Board, a nonprofit headquartered in Atlanta, will provide teachers and administrators at the district&#8217;s two high schools and two elementary schools with &#8220;wraparound supports, ongoing professional learnings and&#8230;instructional strategies&#8221; to improve math instruction.<\/p>\n<p>At Liberty High School, for example, SREB will provide what it describes as \u201cintensive, job-embedded instructional coaching support\u201d that will cover lessons, learning targets for students and instructional strategies and assessments, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>Work at Freedom High School will focus on support for leadership to develop the capacity to guide instructional improvement, foster a shared vision for high-quality teaching and create practices that encourage continuous improvement throughout the school, the contract says.<\/p>\n<p>James Buchanan and Fountain Hill elementary schools also will receive coaching services focused on improving instructional practices.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, SREB will work with the district\u2019s director of STEM to facilitate several days of professional development opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which commences Tuesday and runs through June 30, is for a cost not to exceed $110,000.<\/p>\n<p>Support services<\/p>\n<p>In a separate contract approved Monday night, the district will continue to utilize ABA Support Services this school year for a board-certified behavior analyst at $131.25 per hour and a licensed behavior specialist at $105 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Fountain Hill<\/p>\n<p>Directors approved a move involving Fountain Hill Elementary School. The action consolidates multiple parcels onto a single deed owned by the district for the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Alternative Educational Designation<\/p>\n<p>The board designated New Hope Academy as an alternative educational placement. The approval involves a daily rate of $252.90 not to exceed $45,522.<\/p>\n<p>New student clubs<\/p>\n<p>The board approved the latest student clubs Monday night. One, called \u201cReady, Set, Go!\u201d at Freedom High School, will design, organize, fundraise and host Special Olympic events for kindergarten through sixth grade students. The second will establish a Spanish club at East Hills Middle School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 The Bethlehem Area School District Board of Directors on Monday night approved a deal for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,1412,122407,122409,50354,122408,12041],"class_list":["post-295996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem-area-school-district","tag-instructional-coaching","tag-math-instruction","tag-professional-development","tag-southern-regional-education-board","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}