[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Very, very sad news...

[P Pearson]

With a few corrections.  I guess I was writing with my heart not my head,
at least not my editor's head

I just got an email from Patty Anders letting me know that Ken Goodman died
at 5:30 am this morning.  My heart stopped when I heard the news.  Even
though we knew this day would come eventually, and even though we have
known for some time that it would come sooner rather than later...

When the moment did actually come, it still somehow seems surreal.  Hard
for me to imagine the field of literacy and reading research without Ken.
Hard to imagine the world without him.

We agreed on a lot of things. But...We did not always agree on everything
about the nature of reading or its pedagogy.  But I never knew anyone with
whom I more enjoyed sharing both our agreements and disagreements.  And the
one thing we always agreed on was policy--and how important it was--and
is--to support teacher knowledge and prerogative to shape curriculum and
pedagogy inside schools.

Patty told me last night that she was going out to see Ken this morning.  I
asked her to tell him, if the opportunity arose, that he always has been,
and still is, my hero and my model of how one should be a scholar of both
theory and practice.

And such a fixture in the Reading Hall of Fame!  So many memories of him,
most recently getting around so nimbly in his scooter while enriching our
conversations so.

Sending love and good thoughts to the Goodman family.  Wishing for the
telling of great Ken Goodman stories--for the family

AND for all of us, his colleagues, who will miss him--but remember him
always.

David

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 8:32 AM P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> I just got an email from Patty Anders letting me know that Ken Goodman
> died at 5:30 am this morning.  My heart stopped when I heard the news.
> Even though we knew this day would come eventually, and even though we have
> known for some time that it would come sooner rather than later...
>
> When the moment did actually come, it still somehow seems surreal.  Hard
> for me to imagine the field of literacy and reading research without Ken.
> Hard to imagine the world without him.
>
> We agreed on a lot of things. But...We did not always agree on everything
> about the nature of reading or its pedagogy.  But I never knew anyone with
> whom I enjoyed sharing both our agreements and disagreements.  And the one
> thing we always agreed on was policy--and how important it was--and is--to
> support teacher knowledge and prerogative to shape curriculum and pedagogy
> inside schools.
>
> Patty told me last night that she was going out to see Ken this morning.
> I asked her to tell him, if the opportunity arose, that he always has been,
> and still is, my hero and my model of what how one should be a scholar of
> both theory and practice.
>
> And such a fixture in the Reading Hall of Fame!  So many memories of him,
> most recently getting around so nimbly in his scooter while enriching our co
>
> Sending love and good thoughts to the Goodman family.  Wishing for the
> telling of great Ken Goodman stories--for the family
>
> AND for all of us, his colleagues, who will miss him--but remember him
> always.
>
> David
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> Graduate School of Education
> University of California, Berkeley
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Evelyn Lois Corey *Emeritus* Professor of Instructional Science
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Berkeley

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