âDonât believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and youâll see the way to fly.â -from the poem, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
âWhat we call differentiated is not a recipe for teaching.…
âCreative thinking may mean simply the realization that there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.â -Rudolf Flesch
Todayâs Inspiration Blog is also an Activity Blog. If you continue reading youâll understand whyâŚ
Friday was an early release day for all three of my children, so I decided to make Glenna Tabor, educational consultant, take the day off.…
âYou have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.â -Friedrich Nietzsche
There are many, many different (and very long definitions) for the term Differentiating Instruction. The simplest one I’ve ever used is:
âDifferentiating instruction means regularly âshaking upâ whatâs going on in your classroom.â…
âIt takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.â    -Eleanor Roosevelt
I was working with a school a few weeks ago as we planned for the remainder of the year. The things we identified, at the beginning of the planning process, were the most challenging topics or concepts that the teachers were going to teach in mathematics.…
“As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. ” -Cokie Roberts
âIt is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.â -Edgar Watson Howe
I woke up this morning and looked at the stuffed animal my parents brought back from Germany a few years ago.…
âI have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.â -Leonardo da Vinci
A group of teachers once told me that using small groups in mathematics didnât meet the needs of all their students.…
âMan must shape his tools lest they shape him.â    -Arthur Miller
âAn architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.â    -Frank Lloyd Wright
Many of you have counted down the days till you received a much deserved spring break.…
“Language permits us to see. Without the word, we are all blind.” âCarlos Fuentes
“Language is not merely a means of expression and communication; it is an instrument of experiencing, thinking, and feeling … Our ideas and experiences are not independent of language; they are all integral parts of the same pattern, the warp and woof of the same texture.…
“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.” -Thomas Henry Huxley
Iâve been receiving a lot of questions about Tabor Rotation (a highly successful, research-based strategy for rigorously differentiating instruction in mathematics) and how to implement the essential components of T.R.…
“The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods.” -Margaret Mead
“The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes, and leads you onto the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.”…
