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

The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

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

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.

I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.

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.

Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.