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The Pyramid of Learning is a framework used by the Akron Public Schools to ensure ALL students receive the academic interventions and behavioral supports needed to be successful within the school setting."

Arne Duncan's address to an ASCD group

"That's why I wrote Teach Above the Test. This book is all about how we as teachers, administrators, parents, as school leaders, as people who see our students for 180 days a year…how we can go beyond the standards, and above the tests. Our focus needs to change. We can't hate these assessments. And we also can't love these assessments. We need to start treating these tests for what they really are…which is just one assessment out of many that our students will have to take in life. "

"The Differentiator is based on Bloom's Taxonomy, Sandra Kaplan's Flip Book and Flip Book, Too, and David Chung's product menu."

Preview entire book online "Classroom routines are the sequence and the order that students are asked to follow, be it walking in line though the hall, or raising hands to sharpen pencils, or answering "present" when their name is called for attendance. Established routines run themselves, they are the well-oiled machines that can make a classroom function."

Grades 1-12 Peel school district in Ontario

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"Ability grouping, also known as tracking, is the practice of grouping children together according to their talents in the classroom. At the elementary school level, the divisions sound harmless enough - kids are divided into the Bluebirds and Redbirds. But in secondary schools, the stratification becomes more obvious as students assume their places in the tracking system."

"Do you have high expectations for your students? I've never met a teacher who said, "I have low expectations for my students." The challenge is that we sometimes have hidden low expectations of certain students."

Lakewood High School 2.0 Moodle site

"The Flipped Classroom Infographic A new method of teaching is turning the traditional classroom on its head. What's a flipped classroom - and why now"

Learning about Teaching: Initial Findings from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project Met Life survey

Carol Ann Tomlinson videos from ASCD