Carol Tomlinson reading to k-12 class

Welcome!

Welcome to DifferentiationCentral. We’ve designed this website as your 'go to' place for reliable information and resources that will help deepen your understanding and enhance your practice of Differentiated Instruction. Here you can share your successes with others and find help from experts in the field. We look forward to sharing this journey with you. You may want to begin by learning about how we define Differentiated Instruction.

Carol Tomlinson
William Clay Parrish Jr. Professor of Education
Curry School of Education - University of Virginia

INSTITUTE News

APPLY SOON for a teacher scholarship for our Summer Institutes, July 9-13 & July 16-20.

rotundaThe Summer Institute on Academic Diversity (SIAD) is in its seventeenth year in 2012, SIAD continues to give teachers access to the power of differentiation through morning discussions with Carol Tomlinson and afternoon break-out sessions designed to reinforce the principles and practices of differentiation.

Key presenters include Carol Tomlinson, Kristina Doubet, Marcia Imbeau, and a host of other amazing contributors. Register TODAY! (Spaces are limited.)

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Conference handouts are available on our system for about 2 weeks following each event (SIAD, BPI or Fall Symposium). Please click here to access the session handouts.

Featured Video

Just getting started with Differentiation?

In a video clip filmed at one of our Institutes, Carol Tomlinson breaks down three basic ways researchers tell us that students can differ with respect to learning: readiness, interest, and learning profile. She then suggests how teachers might differentiate with these needs in mind.

 

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Featured Articles

"The Stigma of Low Expectations"

Ed Week blogger, Peter DeWitt, uses a new article published in Educational Leadership by Carol Tomlinson and Jane Jarvis, "Teaching Up," as a springboard to discuss setting high expectations for all students.

"Several Ways To Differentiate Instruction"

Award-winning teacher, author and blogger, Larry Ferlazzo asked Carol Tomlinson and Rick Rick Wormeli to help answer the question, "What is the best advice you can give to a teacher about differentiating instruction?" Read how they answered that question in his Teacher Blog in Education Week."