Teachers College professor Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study For Teaching Reading curriculum was once used in hundreds of New York City public schools and thousands of elementary schools nationwide. A ...
Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...
A traditional semester model would have students study four of these units at a time for 13 weeks over two semesters plus exams. This roughly converts to 10 hours per week per unit, or 40 hours per ...