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.

1. What is a differentiated classroom? -- 2. The underpinnings of differentiation -- 3. Rethinking how we do school - and for whom -- 4. Learning environments that support differentiated instruction -- 5. Good curriculum as a basis for differentiation -- 6. Teachers at work building differentiated classrooms -- 7. Instructional strategies that support differentiation -- 8. More instructional strategies to support differentiation -- 9. How do teachers make it all work? -- 10. Education leaders as catalysts for differentiated classrooms.