The Differentiated Classroom: Doing What’s Fair
As I learn from education author Rick Wormeli, fair isn’t always equal.
4 min readJul 10, 2018
It was my first year of teaching, and I had assigned my 11th-grade history students their first take-home essay. After two weeks and several check-ins, one student (let’s call him John), failed to submit anything. I gave John a “0,” which plummeted his grade along…