Each week, I publish a post containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here.

Here are this week’s picks:

A veteran teacher turned coach shadows 2 students for 2 days – a sobering lesson learned appeared in Grant Wiggins’ blog.

Evaluating and Vetting Common Core “Aligned” Close Reading Materials is by Jan Burkins & Kim Yaris.

Five Tips for Getting Started With Differentiation in a Secondary Classroom is from ASCD. I’m adding it to
The Best Resources On Differentiating Instruction.