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

A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners.

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

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

Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them.

We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."

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