Mr. Hamada's Universe

At our in-house PD conference this weekend, I spent the entirety of my time in sessions with Sandra Page from ASCD. A fantastic decision. Her four sessions on differentiated instruction were on point, relevant, and full of actual examples for me to sink my teeth into. Starting with Learning Styles – An introduction to Sternberg’s [...]

There has been a fantastic free-for-all going on over at Beyond School. I won’t get into the specifics – check it out for yourself;the real excitement is in the 75+ comments – but it has focused on, among other things, assessing students in an English Language Arts classroom. In this age, how much weight should [...]