After Best Practices Institute

So this past week I attended UVA's Best Practices Institute on Differentiated Instruction. A wonderful opportunity to continue to develop my own skills and maybe learn another way to teach DI to my students. One of the conclusions I always come to after attending one of these conferences, is good teaching is good teaching. Good teaching means knowing your students so that an instructor can create differentiated instruction that is meaningful to the students. Does our current established system really allow for that? Also the other conclusion I come to is that I really miss the K-12 world. I think I will give higher education one more year and then I may venture back to my happy place-middle school.