You may, or may not, have read or heard about last week’s opinion piece at Education Week titled Differentiation Doesn’t Work. It’s gotten a lot of circulation and over one hundred comments. Those comments are more interesting than the column itself, which reads more like a “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore” rant that demands we return to tracking than a reasoned reflection on differentiation. It just doesn’t have much substance to it.

As most teachers know, we have to differentiate and there are plenty of ways to do it without killing ourselves.

Here are some helpful resources:

The Five-by-Five Approach to Differentiation Success
is the title of an Ed Week piece my colleague Katie Hull Sypnieski and I co-authored.

The Best Resources On Differentiating Instruction

The Best Resources For Learning About Ability Grouping & Tracking

My four Education Week Teacher posts on differentiation include contributions from many of the foremost educators in the field, including Donalyn Miller, Rick Wormeli, Carol Ann Tomlinson and more:

Several Ways To Differentiate Instruction

More Ways To Differentiate Instruction — Part Two

Differentiating Lessons by ‘Content, Process, or Product’

‘Differentiation Is More Than A Set Of Strategies’