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When I make recommendations to educational teams, I usually invoke Vygotsky and learning theory, and call it placing students at the optimal instructional level, or in the ZPD. My hope is that this will make it more apparent that this kind of instructional planning is exactly the same as the placement decisions that are made on behalf of students who fall below +1.5 SD. So far, I have had fairly positive responses from other school staff.