When you enter a new classroom at the Wexford-Missaukee Intermediate School District, it looks like any preschool classroom ...

Differentiated Instruction (DI) is an educational strategy that tailors teaching methods, content and assessment to meet the diverse learning needs, interests and abilities of individual students.

In the middle schools where I have taught, differentiated instruction is understood in multiple ways. The veteran educators tend to call it a “new name for the same old things.” Teachers in the middle ...