Episode 144: The Science of Reading as More Than a Pendulum Swing

We want the shift to reading science to be permanent, not perceived as another ‘educational pendulum swing.’ To do this, it’s necessary to recognize what worked and  didn’t work within balanced literacy. Today’s guests, UnboundEd’s Lacey Robinson and The Right to Read Project’s Margaret Goldberg, both shifted from teaching using balanced literacy (specifically Lucy Calkins’ Workshop Model, also known as Units of Study) to structured literacy and became powerful literacy advocates in the process. 

Resources

• Sold a Story podcast and other APM Reports by Emily Hanford
• The Right to Read Project 
• UnboundEd
• Seeing the Good in Balanced Literacy... and Moving On by Margaret Goldberg
• The Truth About Reading Film website (and trailer)

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