It's important to know how to lead and manage a classroom with flexibility. Students of all ages are quite capable of learning these routines and con….

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work..

Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished.

I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent….

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made..

We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The ….

We need to develop a robust set of tools - strategies and routines - that help us address student variance. It's easy to come to rely on two or three….

I have little interest in a surgeon who says, "I learned that when I was in medical school. Why should I revisit it?" or who says, "I've done that op….

On some level students are essentially the same. They are people with fears and dreams. They laugh and cry over many of the same things. They share a….

The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities..

We need to understand where are students are at any point during a unit - in other words, what each student actually knows, understands, and can do a….

In the field of education, educators know that they leave a lasting impact on their students for better or for worse. Trust is established or diminis….

Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students lack a sense o….

We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach..

A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully a….

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill..

[Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with "traditional" approaches t….

Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than m….

Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class….

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit.

Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it….