Carol asks, "Which brings me to my question. What is the answer to administrators who believe that the boxed Reading Program is the answer? We are a high performing school but administrators seem crazed at the lack of "consistency". How can we convince administrators that Ellin's model can meet the need for a "research based reading program"? Is it possible?"
Unfortunately, I don't have a response, but I'd like to further complicate the query. What about administrators who are smart and savvy and recognize the brilliance of Keene's work but do not encourage whole-school implementation? We are an above-average-performing school and our kids did well when our whole district "adopted" MOT comprehension strategies. Then California regressed to Houghton Mifflin/Open Court and all our good work vanished. A few of us continued, but it's hard to work alone. At least now I have a partner who teaches comprehension strategies with me, but I can't even get her to read To Understand. Honestly, I haven't been able to get ONE person to read it with me. It's easy to convince my principal of the ideal, but there's just no support--and that makes it hard. I can only wave the banner so long. Judy (judy3ca) _______________________________________________ Understand mailing list [email protected] http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
