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

The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage in professional malpractice on a regular basis.

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.

The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.

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

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.

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