At 2:50 yesterday afternoon my second graders were lined up with their backpacks, their book boxes which I’d given them, their name tags which we had packed carefully and some of them still held their cupcakes from our end of year party in their hands … and they went out the door the same way […]

Two Words: We Reflect Now in May we are starting to think about putting things away. If we are not taking the anchor charts off our wall, we at least have chided ourselves for not doing so. The students have become nervous and some are sad at the thought of leaving the classroom and others

Differentiated instructions is an education term which refers to any practices, approaches, tools or structures that facilitate teaching students at different levels. In general, it refers to teaching  the same material, if possible at the same time. It is closely related to inclusion, but inclusion tends to refer to mainstreaming students in special education, whereas