Includes common misconceptions about differentiation; nonnegotiables that are essential to the implementation of differentiated instruction; factors that contribute to failure to change classroom practice; leadership lessons for accomplishing the change process; tools for monitoring and evaluating the change toward differentiation; and characteristics of staff development practices that support differentiated instruction.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Setting the stage for change toward differentiation -- Leadership for change toward differentiation -- The nature of professional development for change toward differentiation -- The content of professional development for change toward differentiation -- Monitoring and evaluating change toward differentiation -- Snapshots of the change process at Conway elementary school -- Snapshots of the change process at Colchester high school -- Change for academically responsive classrooms: looking back and ahead -- Appendixes -- References -- Index -- About the authors.