A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

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 "trusty" instructional strategies like worksheets and lectures. Those are of little help in planning for a variety of student needs. As we develop a better toolbox, we're empowered to meet students where they are.

When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward

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

Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.

[Students] are also accustomed to having quick access to information. The idea of "storing" data in their heads can seem pointless. I find that they are also much more interested in learning through problem solving and group collaboration than in the past.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.