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American educator and professor

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.

Early life

Calkins and her eight siblings were raised by their parents who were both doctors. Calkins used to babysit Donald Graves's children, which got her interested in reading and writing. She attended Williams College and graduated in 1973.

She earned her doctorate in English education from NYU.^[1][2]

Career

Calkins was a high school teacher in Connecticut. She left that job for an unpaid internship at a primary school in Oxfordshire to learn about the British education model, which was considered to be more effective at teaching reading than the United States.^[3]

In 1981, Calkins founded the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project institute in Columbia University's Teacher College.^[4]

In 1986, she published The Art of