Although much has changed in schools in recent years, the power of differentiated instruction remains the same and the need for it has only increased. Today's classroom is more diverse, more inclusive, and more plugged into technology than ever before. And it's led by teachers under enormous pressure to help decidedly unstandardized students meet an expanding set of rigorous, standardized learning targets. In this updated second edition of her best-selling classic work, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers these teachers a powerful and practical way to meet a challenge that is both very modern and completely timeless: how to divide their time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct so many students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.

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 that support differentiation -- 9. How do teachers make it all work? -- 10. Education leaders as catalysts for differentated classrooms -- A final thought -- Appendix: Tools to guide planning for differentiated instruction -- Bibliography.