EdSourceToday OP t1_j9l3azm wrote on February 22, 2023 at 7:33 PM

Reply to comment by No-Idea-2748 in We are journalists from EdSource and we want to answer questions on what parents and teachers need to know to help kids learn to read by EdSourceToday

There seems to be little appetite in California for mandating SOR, although many other states are doing so. Teacher training is at the core of the issue. Many teachers are learning the science of reading on their own time and on their own dime because they feel they have not been well served by their training programs.

Gazebo_Placebo t1_j9o8n3c wrote on February 23, 2023 at 11:45 AM

My wife was an intervention specialist and hearing her breakdown this exact issue as a constant roadblock in her ability to get old school Gen Ed teachers to move away from whole word instruction is baffling.

Even in her masters coursework right now she’s running into instructors that are ignorant of the SOR.