In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

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…

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

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

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

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

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

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

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

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…

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

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

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

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

- Carol Ann Tomlinson