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

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 though all individuals in it were basically alike.

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.

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

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and who are reflective about their work with their students.

Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.