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Lucy Calkins

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Dr
Lucy Calkins
Born1951
California
🏳️ CitizenshipAmerican
🎓 Alma materNew York University
💼 Occupation
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Lucy Calkins (born 1951) is an American educational theorist, professor at the School of Teaching and Learning, and Founding Director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University. She is best known for her work with Units of Study an organization that provides professional development for primary school teachers through the Writing Workshop.[1]

Education[edit]

Calkins's parents were medical doctors in California and she has an undergraduate degree from Williams College and earned her doctorate from New York University[2]

Career[edit]

Working primarily with the Teachers College at Columbia University she has trained hundreds of thousands of teachers in her whole language methods for teaching reading and writing.[3] [4] [5]

In 2022 she came under increased scrutiny about her teaching methods because of a controversy around what has become called the Science of Reading. Parents concerned with their children having difficulty learning the basics of reading questioned the methodology espoused in her elementary school cirrculm.[6]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Calkins, Lucy M (2020). Teaching Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-325-11812-3. Search this book on
  • Calkins, Lucy M (2018). Leading Well. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-325-10922-0. Search this book on
  • Calkins, Lucy M (2014). Writing Pathways. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-325-05730-9. Search this book on
  • Calkins, Lucy M (2005). Big Lessons from Small Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-325-00748-9. Search this book on
  • Calkins, Lucy M (2005). One to One. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-325-00788-5. Search this book on
  • Calkins, Lucy M (1994). The Art of Teaching Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-435-08809-5. Search this book on
  • Calkins, Lucy M (1990). Living Between the Lines. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-435-08538-4. Search this book on

Awards[edit]

  • Williams College Bicennential Medial (2020)[7]

References[edit]

  1. "Units of Study Introduction". unitsofstudy.com. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  2. "Calkins, Lucy M. (lmc71)". tc.columbia.edu/. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  3. "About the Reading and Writing Workshop". readingandwritingproject.org/. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  4. "The Lucy Calkins Project". educationnext.org/. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  5. "How Lucy Calkins, literacy guru and Fariña ally, is fighting to define Common Core teaching". ny.chalkbeat.org. 24 April 2014. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  6. Goldstein, Dana (22 May 2022). "In the Fight Over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  7. "Lucy Calkins, Class of 1973 Wins Bicennential Award". alumni-awards.williams.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-29.

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