In 2009, after a brief hiatus to stay home with my young children I returned to the classroom. I taught a 6th grade gifted integrated Eng...

This post was originally published in @PeterMDeWitt‘s blog Finding Common Ground in Education Week. Today’s guest post is written by freq...

This post was originally published on Corwin   Connect. Recently I wrote a guest blog post on differentiation for Peter DeWitt’s blog Fin...

This post was originally published in @PeterMDeWitt‘s blog Finding Common Ground in Education Week. Want more posts like this? Please rea...

This post was originally published in @PeterMDeWitt‘s blog Finding Common Ground in Education Week. Today’s guest post is written by Lisa...

“When teachers stop learning, so do students.” Jim Knight, Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach for Dramatically Improving Instruc...

For other posts on differentiation, read these posts: Why Differentiation Misses the Mark for Gifted Students Differentiation: Attainable...

Aziz Abdur-Ra’off and Connie Hamilton Ed.S. The topic “addressing the needs of boys in our classrooms” is one that is near and dear to my...

My first year teaching was one of the best and worst years of my career. I was hired to teach 7th and 8th grade gifted humanities in a sm...

Heads up, this post is going to be about “working out”. Six years ago, as a reader that would have been enough information for me to deci...

In-house professional development (otherwise known as instructional coaching) is gaining popularity in the field of education. There is q...

I need to admit something. I hate reading logs. I hated them as a student. I hated them as a teacher, and I hate them as a parent. Howeve...

When I first started teaching a veteran teacher told me, “If you stick around long enough, you’ll see everything come and go and come bac...

Written from my parent/educator perspective for other parents. As an educator, I am often intrigued by parents’ opinions of their child’s...

It’s no secret that there are two things I love: education and analogies.  Oh, and people and shopping.  Ok… that’s four.  Luckily, for t...

Tips for facilitating effective project based learning units I am a huge fan of projects and project based learning. I love how PBL is a...

I truly believe that (if used correctly) data can help students learn and teachers teach best. Teachers have always used various forms of...

Using student portfolios as a tool to help increase student learning in addition to showcasing final projects is a relatively new take on...

As an educator, this quote really hits home. In fact, in a survey of 20,000 teachers, 76% said that if they had to identify one thing tha...

Carol Ann Tomlinson explained, “[an] important principle [of differentiation] is that of flexible grouping… you need to systematically mo...