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

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

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.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

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