“Stay out of jail!” That was the subject line of an email I received shortly after I started in my new role as CEO at Achieve3000. I pay close attention to classroom solutions that can meet these ...

Differentiating instruction is not a new approach to bridging the varying learning styles of students with different backgrounds and learning abilities. For years, educators have strategized how to ...

I’ve shared my response in an Ed Week Teacher article that I’ve co-authored with my colleague, Katie Hull Sypnieski. It’s titled “The Five By Five Approach To Differentiation Success.” Today’s column ...

When we facilitate professional development events, there’s often a common theme: teachers understand the importance of active STEM teaching and learning, but don’t always know how to implement it in ...

My colleague and co-author Katie Hull and I worked with Ed Week Teacher last fall to create a popular animated video introducing differentiated instruction. Then, Ed Week send a videographer to our ...

Differentiated Instruction is the process of tailoring your curriculum to integrate individual student’s passions, interests and goals. Differentiation can take many forms. I suggest beginning your ...

Last weekend, I sat in a sewing class with my 10-year old daughter and was surprised to learn that ⅓ of our day would be dedicated to programming our sewing machines. The room full of women, most over ...

As 21st-century classrooms continue to evolve, the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Americas is at the forefront of implementing differentiated instruction, a teaching approach that ...

Using these pre-assessments will give teachers an idea of where they are starting with their students at the beginning of the year. In The New York Times, Dr. Susan Demirsky Allan, assistant ...

Ben Dykhouse is a high school computer applications teacher and the learning technology coach at Ontario Christian Schools in Ontario, Calif. Meet Janelle, an intelligent, creative, computer-literate ...

Rigorous, differentiated, student-centered classrooms. For many educators, that’s the ideal. The trick is actually creating such classrooms, much less doing the work well. And that challenge has never ...

Since 1983, people have been talking about “multiple intelligences,” an idea proposed by Howard Gardner, a Harvard developmental psychologist, in his book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple ...