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Journal Article

This article describes three interconnected strategies to help form the structure of support that you and your students can use to reach both goals simultaneously: performance expectations for students, explicit teaching strategies that support inqui...

Journal Article

Editor’s Roundtable: Differentiated instruction to the rescue!

Differentiated Instruction (DI) is an ongoing practice: teachers intentionally and systematically discover and plan lessons around the strengths, needs, prior knowledge, and attitudes of their students. Teachers must routinely consider not just the �...

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Guest Editorial: Discovering life

In this editorial piece, the author shares how he spent over 20 years as a corporate manager for a financial printing firm. He further explains how bringing a company public or coordinating a corporate merger were difficult tasks, but they were child...

Journal Article

Differentiation Through Choice: Using a Think-Tac-Toe for Science Content

Differentiation can begin with a single lesson, expand to a unit, and finally grow to be a natural part of a teacher’s daily practice. The Think-Tac-Toe, described in this article, can evaluate students’ learning during and at the conclusion of a...

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Everyday Engineering: What makes a better box?

Every morning, many Americans start their day with a bowl of cereal. Some spend time while they eat breakfast reading the back of the cereal box, but few consider its size, shape, and construction, or realize that it was designed by an engineer. This...

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Unit Pages: Differentiation for 200 Students

Based upon the models of differentiated instruction (Tomlinson and Edison 2003) and Layered Curriculum (Nunley 2004), the author the Unit Pages strategy. Just like Layered Curriculum, the pages can be handed directly to students, allowing them to tak...