Differentiated Instruction - Understanding Organizational Leadership to Transform Learning
Los Gatos Superintendent Dr. Diana Abbati continues her series of articles on differentiated instruction with a review of research to understand organizational leadership needed to transform learning and implement innovative instructional practices to provide diverse learners with equal opportunities. Background Educational leaders continually strive to implement new initiatives to support teachers, educate students for the 21st century, and create equitable learning environments within schools today. In an effort to meet the needs of all students and close the achievement gap, differentiating curriculum in the classroom has been praised as a transformative practice for change. Given the complexity of implementing any new initiative, I began my inquiry by reading aboutschool reform efforts, learning communities, and building leadership capacity.After an exhaustive search,I found that program decisions rarely come about through rational decision-making processes but through mult...