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

We need to understand where are students are at any point during a unit - in other words, what each student actually knows, understands, and can do at a given time based on the content goals we've established.

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.

We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."

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.

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

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