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
Month: March 2023
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
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
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
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