❌Not the Pinterest-perfect classroom. 🔥The real one. The one where: – 1st period needs reteach – 3rd period needs enrichment – 6th period is somewhere in between – and your prep gets eaten by an IEP meeting You’re tracking data. Responding to parent emails. Making copies that somehow never make it back to your desk. And still expected to “differentiate with fidelity.” Here’s what I learned after years in self-contained, co-teaching, and intervention settings: You don’t need more hours. You need