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Geoff
Wormeli uses chapter 15 as a how-to guide for advocating for differentiation and grading reform. This chapter is much more useful for teachers already in the field, teachers who have years of experience, than it does for pre-service teachers like us because, like any other profession where you start at the bottom and work your way up, how much sway will we have? How much leverage will we have to bring change in schools? We can say whatever we want about differentiated instruction, but we’re just first year teachers, what do we know about education? Whether that’s true or not, that’s the likely sentiment that we will receive from those already experienced in the field of education (with some exceptions, of course). While it’s important to have these discussions on educational issues (just like every other professional and political issue), establishing trust, respect, and collegiality is also very important, and it’s hard to establish any of those if we go into the field as a bunch of hotshots shoving our beliefs in the faces of others. This is a chapter to revisit later, once we have established that leverage and clout as experienced teachers, department heads, principals, etc., but that’s still a ways off from now.