In the wake of a pandemic that put so many students behind, public schools throughout the Bay Area hope that rethinking literacy will regain academic outcomes.
The movement to change the way kids learn to read goes back decades, but Covid closures that erased years of test gains made it a national focus.
Broadly speaking, several districts are moving away from the pedagogy by education professor Lucy Calkins that focuses on engaging material and self-discovery in favor of an approach centered on phonics and sounding out words.