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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's the educators who need to get sued. They should have known better than to buy a shit program with no phonics.

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Agreed. Teachers voted on these programs and educators run the administrative levels in FCPS too.[/quote]

The teachers who voted for Lucy Calkins had been trained in grad school using Fountas and Pinnell. They had been taught it was best practice.[/quote]
+1 University schools of education/teacher cert programs are a huge culprit here, too. Neither in grad school nor undergrad did I learn how to teach reading in a systematic manner with phonics. I went to a university well-regarded for its education program and as a whole (heck, the Lucy Calkins crap came out of one of the best universities in the entire world) - as far as literacy goes, I learned a lot about how to "inspire a love of reading" in students, how to structure a literacy block, how to pick "culturally relevant texts" and that kind of stuff...but explicitly being taught the systematic steps and processes of HOW to teach kids to read? Nope. I graduated from undergrad in 2004 and it was alllll balanced literacy.

Fortunately for my students, I invested a lot of personal time into learning how to properly teach kids to read because I very quickly saw the gaps in how I was trained. But many (most?) people who were trained in that era didn't. They...gasp...trusted that they were learning best, research-based practices from their universities. Which I think is not that unreasonable to expect from your university...?

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/13/1219318432/teacher-training-programs-dont-always-use-research-backed-reading-methods
But teacher training programs like this one don't always prepare educators to use researched-backed reading methods, like phonics. In a 2023 study, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) surveyed nearly 700 teacher training programs across the country. Their findings:

"Only about a quarter of the teachers who leave teacher preparation programs across our nation enter classrooms prepared to teach kids to read [in a way that's] aligned to the science and research on reading," says Heather Peske, president of NCTQ.[/quote]

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