Don't look for me between the hours of 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. That's when I observe teachers, no excuse. In conjunction with this effort, we began to closely track individual student progress at Pinewood and meet regularly in teams to discuss, by name, any student not making the grade. Regular progress reports to parents became a top priority. The book encompasses the work of a multitude of reform groups, including New American Schools, the Education Trust and New Standards, Charter Schools in Action.
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This process is phonics. Lyon recommends that schools use a reading program that incorporates phoneme awareness, phonics and whole language. He claims that adult arguments over whole language versus phonics instruction misses the point. Teachers must not only be steeped in how to help a child develop phoneme awareness, phonics and fluency, but also be able to determine which method a child needs at a certain time in his or her development of reading skills, according to Lyon. However, the Nobel winners in conjunction with more than 30 other scientists and classroom teachers from across the nation protested the award on technical grounds.