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Sunday, September 9, 2012

A Call For Principals And Administrators That Advocate Balanced Literacy To Be Terminated Immediately.southbronxschool.com

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A Call For Principals And Administrators That Advocate Balanced Literacy To Be Terminated Immediately

We here at SBSB bashed Lucy Calkins and her cult of Teacher's College Reader's and Writer's Workshop on these pages and rightfully so. However, in going through our writings we have discovered we have left one demographic out of our cross hairs. The principals of the schools that enable, or rather disable, the student's of their schools chances to ever read.

We here at SBSB call for charges, removal, and eventual termination of any principal that chooses the TC method of Balanced Literacy as their curriculum in their schools. With the Common Core standards facing us down as educators, why would any principal in their right mind choose TC?