Hi all. I'm not a teacher myself, but I'm building an understanding of differentiated instruction- thanks for pointing out Rick Wormeli as one of the gurus. I have a multitude of questions I'd like to ask, but I'll start with these since you have all brought up interesting points: Nicole, Can you elaborate on what you're doing to work with students' interests in your instruction? Teachers from the project based learning camp place heavy focus on this area, and I'm curious to see how much it overlaps with the differentiated group. Michelle, What made it difficult to record and use your observation data? Can you tell us a little more for the benefit of uninitiated members like myself? Thanks!

I like them too. I like how they are less vague and how the expectations are a notch higher.