The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, the instructional consultancy housed at Columbia University and founded by the popular and controversial literacy icon Lucy Calkins, will soon be ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was ... However, while the school uses Calkins’s writing units for all grades, it uses her reading units only from the third grade on.

few figures have been as central as Lucy Calkins, the literacy professor and curriculum entrepreneur. For four decades, her organization, the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project ...

Lucy Calkins ... not be a central focus in early grades. “Phonics instruction needs to be lean and efficient,” the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project website reads.

Lucy Calkins ... Image A first-grade classroom at P.S. 249 in Brooklyn, a high-performing, high-poverty school that uses Professor Calkins’s reading, writing and phonics programs.Credit ...

few figures have been as controversial yet lionized as Lucy Calkins, the literacy guru and curriculum entrepreneur. For four decades, her organization, the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project ...