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Lucy Calkins is an American educator and professor at Columbia University who is best known for creating the Units of Study reading and writing curriculum.
Prior to founding the Project, Calkins was a researcher working with Donald Graves on the first research study on writing funded by the National Institute of Education. [9] After founding the Project, Calkins developed methodologies designed to increase the amount of writing in classrooms, such as the use of texts as models for writing. [10]
Lucy Calkins initially published her model, co-authored with others involved in the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP) at Columbia University in New York City, in her book A Guide to The Writing Workshop, Grades 3-5 (Portsmouth, NH: First Hand, 2006). Calkin was inspired by the early work of Donald Graves, Donald Murray, and ...
Susanna Calkins (born November 3, 1971) is an American writer of historical mysteries, an historian, and a university teacher and administrator. Through 2020, her publications include five mystery novels in two series, as well as a work of non-fiction about higher education.
The defendants are the educational publishing company Heinemann, as well as authors Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, and others. The suit claims they falsely advertised its products as “research-backed” and “data-based". [12] [13]
Tim Calkins was born in Buffalo, New York in 1965 to father Evan Calkins and mother Virginia Brady who were married on September 9, 1946, and were both doctors. He has eight siblings, Sally, Stephen, Lucy, Joan, Benjamin, Hugh, Ellen, and Geoffrey.
Calkins is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Blaine Calkins (born 1968), Canadian politician; Blean Calkins (1921–2003), sports radio broadcaster; Buzz Calkins (born 1971), American racing car driver; Dick Calkins (1894–1962), comic strip artist; Earnest Elmo Calkins (1868–1964), American advertising executive
Lucy Helyn Deakins (born December 18, 1971) is an American attorney and former actress best known for starring as Milly in The Boy Who Could Fly and originating the role of Lily Walsh on As the World Turns.