tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post1369212515311005071..comments2023-12-19T16:54:31.953-05:00Comments on SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: BREAKING NEWS!!! Lucy Calkins and Her Failed Experiment Are Out at the NYC DOE!!!!Pete Zuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708676684946013529noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-71070875513016861992017-01-21T08:52:36.442-05:002017-01-21T08:52:36.442-05:00So what do you think about Ready GEN now? So what do you think about Ready GEN now? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-23721744254780242572016-03-06T21:50:19.708-05:002016-03-06T21:50:19.708-05:00I love reading all of this and find it interesting...I love reading all of this and find it interesting. I'm a teacher in NJ and our district threw out our reading program 6 years ago to adopt LC. Since that time, our Language Arts scores have dropped year after year. What does that tell you? And the admin keep bringing her buddies out from the city to train us. I don't get how you can get away with this stuff without research backing you up? I saw nothing wrong with the program we had in place prior to LC.<br /> Teach94https://www.blogger.com/profile/00130803237869276048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-55901778486727035382015-11-03T16:21:37.357-05:002015-11-03T16:21:37.357-05:00I have been a primary teacher for 25 years. Much o...I have been a primary teacher for 25 years. Much of that time spent in first grade, and now kindergarten. I am so happy to hear from other people who think Lucy Calkin's ridiculous reading and writing workshops are not only ineffective, but downright damaging to young children. She knows the research shows that her programs are nothing more than drivel, and yet she continues to pump it out. This makes her nothing more than a charlatan and a thief! She has made her fortune on the backs of children and teachers. Many of us in CT are still forced to use her abusive, incredibly ineffective tactics on our children. I cannot wait for the uppy-ups in our districts to finally wise-up to the LC charade and get rid of it for good. Thanks to LC, we now have a whole generation of students who have been told year after year what fantastic readers and writers they are... the problem is in truth they are practically illiterate, because we haven't taught them anything! We have also abused our youngest students year after year by forcing them to do things that were utterly developmentally inappropriate. We set them up for failure, and we robbed them of the proper education they deserved. Worst of all, we stole their childhood by forcing them to do things they were just not developmentally ready to do, instead of allowing them time to be children. LC also crushed the innovation and creativity out of our best teachers with her prescriptive nonsense. Her materials are insulting and degrading to educational professionals. Teaching is slowly becoming a lost art. Thanks to administrators who drink the "Lucy Calkins" Koolaid, good teachers are literally forced into bad teaching. We went into education because we genuinely love children. It is heartbreaking to feel like you are abusing the children you love by having to dole out LC garbage day after day. No wonder the great, professional, creative, inspiring teachers are leaving the profession. After a while, they just can't spoon-feed their students the "workshop" garbage one more day. In good conscience they cannot keep harming the children they care about, so they leave teaching. So sad. For the sake of the children... let's all hope this is the beginning of the end of Lucy Calkins and her minions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-15440389631220948772015-10-18T16:04:30.669-04:002015-10-18T16:04:30.669-04:00And what type of community do you teach in?And what type of community do you teach in?Pete Zuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16708676684946013529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-88943533095744458702015-10-18T15:07:18.727-04:002015-10-18T15:07:18.727-04:00Wow - too much venim.
For all of you who don't...<br />Wow - too much venim.<br />For all of you who don't like Lucy Calkins or her writing model - don't use it, but also don't trash it. If you have found something better let us know. I did not see any constructive alternative suggestions.<br />The fact is, as someone already mentioned, there is no one way to teach writing.<br />The benefit, and genius, of LC is that she has provided us with a through structure that many classroom teachers are looking for. Take this structure and modify it as you wish.<br />It has all of the components needed to encourage young writers.<br />For those teachers who are not using the Writing Workshop model, what are you using instead?<br />So let's not trash LC entirely. Learn to recognize it's value and apply it where you think it is appropriate, because for many who are lost in the world of writing, it is a great roadmap.<br />Marc Ladin<br />Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06370879068111532416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-80506102532192493052013-12-19T22:18:13.866-05:002013-12-19T22:18:13.866-05:00Then why not refute what was written point by poin...Then why not refute what was written point by point?Pete Zuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16708676684946013529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-78965833118809896662013-12-19T21:45:32.469-05:002013-12-19T21:45:32.469-05:00It is heartbreaking to read this page, as a teache...It is heartbreaking to read this page, as a teacher of the workshop method for many years now I have seen how it has inspired and lifted students to new heights. The rhetoric spouted on this post is disturbing to the deepest level. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-7567572765177895532013-06-24T19:48:26.886-04:002013-06-24T19:48:26.886-04:00Is Danielson next?Is Danielson next?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-2931190221303714322013-05-15T19:02:51.616-04:002013-05-15T19:02:51.616-04:00The suggested curriculum that has been piloted in ...The suggested curriculum that has been piloted in other districts is a back to the basics curriculum. It is a curriculum like harcourt and the stuff that we had to learn in the 80's and 90's that helped us to be culturally literate, and be informed educated citizens. Unfortunately if you have only been teaching for 0-5 years, or since 2004, you may still think that Teacher's College is the truth. You don't know any better, and you are used to relying on your own knowledge to impart knowledge to children. No teacher used to teach from their own heads. No teacher back I the day, had to write the curriculum & write curriculum maps. That was done by folks who took jobs at text book writing companies. Writing Curriculum was a different major in College than teaching in the 90's. Teaching is delivering the curriculum & making it come alive. So many new teachers are victims of being brainwashed by Teacher's College. When I was in school, we didn't have google. We had to learn information, remember it and apply it to our lives in the real world. If the teacher we had wasn't the greatest teacher on the planet, the text book & the curriculum was what kept them on target. Let's face it, many teachers are not geniuses who remember everything, every minute fact that they have learned in their entire lives and be able to answer many deep higher order thinking questions that clever children have off the top of their heads. Teachers had the text as a guide to help their students dive into the rich information and vocabulary that is present, in a textbook that someone did real research to compose and write. What's sad is that they never stopped using textbooks in Chicago, New Jersey (in Newark even), the schools on the Upper West Side, Little Neck, or Douglaston or in Flushing, Queens. Call a friend in District 26Q and ask them how long they have been using "Ready Gen" and then check the AYP in that district. I'm just saying....WAKE UP!<br /><br />Anyway...I'm ranting, but if you came into the educational system as an educator during the Teacher's College Duping period...you drank the Kool-Aide and will need to be awakened to the truth and Re-programmed to teach properly. It's going to hurt as the truth always hurts. Kyeatta Nailahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08147293908145335892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-68716405142793206132013-04-30T20:33:59.186-04:002013-04-30T20:33:59.186-04:00Wow, have you even looked at the suggested curricu...Wow, have you even looked at the suggested curriculum, such as Expeditionary Learning? Spending days reading Native American Constitutions or Gettysburg Address... over and over and over. Not being able to bring prior knowledge to the text? People learn new information by linking it to their schemata. It's seriously the most boring program on earth. Workshop may not be the easiest to teach, but I'm curious how you all think these new programs will play out, especially for the students that can't read the text. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-45290449490815050092013-04-28T08:51:20.919-04:002013-04-28T08:51:20.919-04:00WOW!!!...I love you guys...what a mess for me to h...WOW!!!...I love you guys...what a mess for me to have had to implement this LC crap in my classroom and never felt comfortable doing it...I was made to feel I was a bad teacher when all along I knew exactly wj<br />hat you guys have expressed here...I am sharing this site on facebook, because I know that there are many other who have felt this way but were made to feel as if they were stupid. Teachers instictly knew this was wrong but forced to do it their way....I now feel so much better about knowing I wasn't wrong...Thank you so muchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-87950601828937359782013-03-06T23:22:41.773-05:002013-03-06T23:22:41.773-05:00The rubber rooms were filled to caacity with great...The rubber rooms were filled to caacity with great teachers who were judged on the impossible gotcha Lucy Calkins methodology, which was a bonanza for incompetent vicious, malicious and capricious incompetent administrators, because they could get ANY teacher on any aspect, for example, of the workshop model.<br /><br /> We should not forget that at the root of this wanton and abject failure was the incompent mayoral control promulgated by the likes of Bloomber, his henchman, Klein and now, his sycophant, Walcott, another incompetent in a long line of education dunces!Polo Colonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-89104544640240587472013-03-04T18:43:29.145-05:002013-03-04T18:43:29.145-05:00The Core Knowledge K-2 program has been piloted in...The Core Knowledge K-2 program has been piloted in NYC with very good results and is open source (from NY State DOE) but will be a headache to implement due to the massive number of pages. Hopefully there'll be a solution so schools can choose it rather than Pearson and Scholastic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-24756885008215929122013-03-04T08:07:25.335-05:002013-03-04T08:07:25.335-05:00My son is a victim of this education scam. His AP...My son is a victim of this education scam. His AP Lit teacher is offering tutoring in writing skills. That should have been done in fifth or sixth grade, not his last year in high school!!!Ms. Tsourishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978868613223436958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-11357024192913117302013-03-03T09:28:58.626-05:002013-03-03T09:28:58.626-05:00The DOE estimates that only 70% of schools will ta...The DOE estimates that only 70% of schools will take their recommendation---so TC will continue to be stuck on our shoes like dog turd. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-90199776143147932312013-03-02T13:05:37.300-05:002013-03-02T13:05:37.300-05:00Calkins made her money at the cost of providing tr...Calkins made her money at the cost of providing true educational programs. This is good news that her program is out but how many children have long-term, repressed educational needs because of her?Zulmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-1588679995018364762013-03-02T11:02:39.137-05:002013-03-02T11:02:39.137-05:00Nope - they absolutely still can pay for TC. I att...Nope - they absolutely still can pay for TC. I attended the citywide Network meeting on Wednesday. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-82230159475913394472013-03-02T10:29:59.475-05:002013-03-02T10:29:59.475-05:00Yes, that it is possible, but from what we've ...Yes, that it is possible, but from what we've heard principals will not be allowed to pay for TC training, coaches, etc....Pete Zuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16708676684946013529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-89984286673151132662013-03-02T10:25:26.887-05:002013-03-02T10:25:26.887-05:00The problem is, RedyGen isn't a comprehensive ...The problem is, RedyGen isn't a comprehensive program. It's a "to be created" Tech program. It's very unlikely to be able to serve as a Core program, at best it's a stop-gap against a future NYC full reading adoption. So schools will either need to continue with Balanced Literacy or adopt a publisher's Core Reading program - Journeys, Wonders, Reading Street, Super Kids etc. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-59017595807422271612013-03-02T00:30:01.220-05:002013-03-02T00:30:01.220-05:00Thank God Calkin's ways are now seen for the o...Thank God Calkin's ways are now seen for the obscene educational scourge it's been since its inception by the inept Klein & Bloomberg incompetent rip-off of the people of NYC and beyond (since many other education morons promoted and replicated the disaster elsewhere!) I am so glad that their scheme of money-making "education" crap has been royally flushed down the toilet bowl of infamy! Shame on Columbia University for promoting her to kiss up to Bloombucks! And good riddance to Joel Klein as well!Polo Colonnoreply@blogger.com