31 Rosalea Fisher 2001 <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Third grade teacher Rosalea Fisher notes a worsening situation in schools when she writes: &quot;Many teachers face my dilemma: How can I give my students choices in their learning if I don't feel as though I have choices about what I teach?&quot; In this essay<span style="">&nbsp; </span>from the Responsive Classroom newsletter, Fisher shows how she integrates more choices for students into the new curriculum of textbooks and manuals mandated at her school and works to avoid &quot;getting stuck inside the box of someone else's structure.&quot;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fisher, R. (2001). Choosing choice: How a third-grade teacher learned to integrate academic choice into a prescribed curriculum.<i>Responsive classroom newsletter (Fall 2001, Vol. 13, No. 4).&nbsp;</i>Retrieved from Responsive Classroom 28 Apr 2008. Link: http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/pdf_files/13_4nl_3.pdf&nbsp; </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/pdf_files/13_4nl_3.pdf