Educational Leadership - February 2012

Extending Our Theme Online

EL

www.ascd.org/el

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.

JOURNAL STAFF
Margaret M. Scherer, Editor in Chief
Deborah Perkins-Gough, Senior Editor
Amy M. Azzam, Senior Associate Editor
Naomi Thiers, Associate Editor
Teresa K. Preston, Associate Editor
Lucy Robertson, Assistant Editor
Judi Connelly, Senior Graphic Designer
Mike Kalyan, Production Manager
Katy Wogec, Rights and Permissions Manager
Brittany Bowen Fleming, Advertising Manager

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Gene R. Carter, Executive Director
Gary Bloom, Art Director
Ronald S. Brandt, Executive Editor Emeritus

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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WHERE TO FIND EL

; Listen to podcasts, view videos, read online-only articles, and more: www.ascd.org/el

;;Read and share the digital version of EL: www.ascd.org/digitalel

;;Discuss selected EL articles on Inservice, the ASCD blog: www.ascd.org/blog

;;Join the EL group on ASCD EDge and comment on any EL article: http://ascdedge.ascd.org

;;Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ed_leadership

;;Contact us by e-mail: edleadership@ascd.org

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