Explains instructional approaches that meet the needs and interests of every student. Includes principles that guide a differentiated classroom; instructional strategies that make it easier to provide multiple learning paths for students; practical ways to give students options about how they learn required curriculum; and steps to get started with differentiation or take it to a higher level.

"ASCD stock no. 199040"--T.p. verso.

What is a differentiated classroom? -- Elements of differentiation -- Rethinking how we do school-and for whom -- Learning environments that support differentiated instruction -- Good instruction as a basis for differentiated teaching -- Teachers at work building differentiated classrooms -- Instructional strategies that support differentiation -- More instructional strategies to support differentiation -- How do teachers make it all work? -- When educational leaders seek differentiated classrooms.