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

Accepting both the opportunity and the responsibility evokes a great deal of humility.

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.

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

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.

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit