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

Fri Mar 13 17:43:10 GMT 2020

Like David, the news of Ken’s passing came as a visceral shock. I suddenly realized I had known Ken my entire professional life — more than 40 years. I’d read his early publications and, with my colleagues near and far, discussed Reading: A Psychological Guessing Game. Whether you agreed with him or not, his work was seminal and made you think.  He was, and continued to be larger than life as an inveterate professional, always there to support colleagues whether they agreed with him or not, always remembering to insert his own views and always working  tirelessly through professional associations to move the field and our footprint ahead. He was also a wonderful person. My deep condolences to Yetta and their family.

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On Mar 12, 2020, at 11:38 AM, P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:

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<mailto: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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