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

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

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

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.

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.

Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.

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