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Following: Instagram Accounts to Follow

Week Two with Lucy Calkins’s Units of Study

April 22, 2023 oliviafulmerUncategorized

Never Enough?

For the last month, I have been helping two other teachers get our middle school chorus ready for their spring concert and Fine Arts night in May.  They are singing three selections from The Greatest Showman. Continue reading

April 4, 2023 oliviafulmerUncategorized

The Future is Now.

Or so it seems. . . . A couple of weeks ago, the inevitable happened. . . . a student used AI and ChatGPT to “write” his assignment.  I thought I had pretty much madeContinue reading

March 19, 2023 oliviafulmerCurriculum, Philosophy, Teaching Strategies

Week Three–Reading Workshop, Book Clubs, Units of Study

Is it spring break yet? I am exhausted. . . . Spring has sprung; the pollen has really created allergy issues for me for the last three weeks or so.  I love spring; my floweringContinue reading

March 13, 2023 oliviafulmerTeaching Strategies, Tech Tools

Are You Using ChatGPT?

When I first started reading about OpenAI ChatGPT, I knew it would have an impact on education and pedagogy.  Teachers of writing already have difficulty with plagiarism in the classroom, even when we teach usingContinue reading

March 11, 2023 oliviafulmerCurriculum, Tech Tools, Technology

Following: Instagram Accounts to Follow

I admit it: I am not good with social media. I have a Facebook account to keep up with my children and my grandson. In the last two or three years, though, I have beenContinue reading

March 7, 2023 oliviafulmerLearning strategies, Teaching Strategies

Week Two with Lucy Calkins’s Units of Study

Last week, I dove into the pool’s deep end with a reading and writing workshop. It is HARD work! I’m using teaching points from Lucy Calkins’s Units of Study for middle school reading: A DeepContinue reading

March 3, 2023 oliviafulmerUncategorized

Reading/Writing Workshop — Week 1

This is the end of the first week of reading and writing workshop in my classes.  I am reading a couple of books–The Literacy Studio by Ellin Oliver Keene (she wrote Mosaic of Thought years ago,Continue reading

February 25, 2023 oliviafulmerUncategorized

Revising My Thinking–and My School Year

I am halfway through the third quarter of the 2022-2023 school year. It has been another hard year:  it is the year of our five-year accreditation evaluation; the learning “gaps” are becoming more obvious; it’sContinue reading

September 10, 2022September 10, 2022 oliviafulmerLearning strategies, Uncategorized

What’s Up with EQ’s?

Essential Questions.  I first heard about them in the early 2000s when I took some Intel Teach to the Future training.  We had to create a unit plan and portfolio using Microsoft products that weContinue reading

July 10, 2022 oliviafulmerUncategorized

Standards and Mastery

One of the things I’ve struggled with this past year is assessment.  I am not satisfied with the standard multiple choice test as a way of measuring students’ learning.  They, as I did, often memorizeContinue reading

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