May I Have the Floor?
This week we were exploring how teachers can differentiate their classrooms through the environment or affect of the room. The TLC designed an activity that shared photos of teachers' classrooms from our school, who used the environment to support differentiation. The activity was a hit, teachers were engaged and discussing the rooms and even asking me to text them the pictures, so they could emulate these ideas in their rooms. Then, we showed a picture of a classroom with flexible seating. Flexible seating in Mr. McNeeley's classroom The groups were discussing and the room was buzzing, quickly it came time for the whole group share out. I was facilitating this moment and asked the room to share what they were talking about regarding the picture of flexible seating, through the lens of a handout we were using to support Tomlinson's definition of differentiation (the yellow paper I will come back to shortly). The first participant shared her frustrations with