As lifelong educators, my co-author and I have experienced a combined 50, yes 50 years in education! Spring semesters, planning, reviewing data, and targeting support before the final bell rings for summer. No matter what role we have held, including teacher, administrator, or instructional coach, our instinctual goal was to ensure at least one year’s growth for every student. But it's not so simple, is it? With the best intentions, our initial instinct is to group students to focus on remediating foundational skills, only to risk excluding them from grade-level content instruction.