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.

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.

We aren't quite sure what we're trying to differentiate, and therefore can't quite see how to do it other than giving some students more to cover and some less. That rarely works.

Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.

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

We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.