Extending Our Theme Online
EL
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Math Groups That Make Sense
Sandra Dean and Michael Zimmerman
Guided choice groups provide the right level of challenge.
What Neuroscience Says About Personalized Learning
Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
What is well-established, what is probably so, and what is neuromyth.
Setting the Stage for Differentiation
Cindy Massicotte
How to arrange the classroom and otherwise plan for differentiation.
Making Standards Serve the Student
Jennifer Tuzzeo
How one district developed competency-based learning.
Stepping into a Student’s Shoes
Margery B. Ginsberg
A teacher finds out what a school day is like for an English language learner.
Review: Someone Has to Fail by David F. Labaree
Reviewed by Naomi Thiers
A cheerful cynic comments on the U.S. public school system.
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EL Study Guide Teresa Preston
Inservice Guest Blogger Larry Cuban
Watch This Spot!
This month’s video clip from the PD Online course Differentiated Instruction:
An Introduction (2nd ed.) shows how a science teacher differentiates.
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