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Lacey's Grandmother Learns to Read
- Lacey Robinson's grandmother, a former sharecropper, learned to read in her sixties.
- Robinson helped her, solidifying her own passion for teaching reading.
No Reading Program
- Starting her teaching career, Lacey Robinson found no reading program at her under-resourced school.
- She developed her own phonics-based program but was told to use the Reading and Writing Workshop instead.
Working for Lucy Calkins
- While attending Teachers College, Robinson worked for Lucy Calkins, unknowingly at a pivotal moment.
- Calkins was expanding her writing workshop into reading and sought expertise from Gay Sue Pinnell.