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Mentor Teachers and Classroom Environments: Exploring implicit bias and gender norms
One of my professional roles is as the director of The Mentor Teacher Training Program at American Jewish University’s graduate education...
Educating Gender
Jul 12, 20224 min read
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On Cheating in Schools: Is It a Gendered Game?
There’s a good chance that Aristotle cheated on some test or exam at some point in his education. Cheating or academic dishonesty has...
Educating Gender
Jun 14, 20225 min read
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8 Effective Strategies for Teaching Boys about Gender. Part II: Beyond the Canary in the Coal Mine.
As I mentioned in Part I of this two-part post, the main approach to thinking about boys and getting them more engaged with school and...
Educating Gender
Sep 14, 20214 min read
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The Real Learning Loss: Not In At-Home Schooling, But In the Home
The constant buzz this year in the press and social media about the year of at-home schooling has centered on the question of learning...
Educating Gender
May 25, 20215 min read
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Autonomous Learning Behaviors Vs. Learned Helplessness: What’s Gender Got to Do with It? Part II
Kenny, an 11th grader at a school where I am the academic director, is struggling universally in all his classes. The school which Kenny...
Educating Gender
Apr 20, 20215 min read
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The Double Standard of Physical Education in Schools
I had a love-hate relationship with gym class in school. While I loved to run around and play games, I was a heavy child after the age of...
Educating Gender
Mar 3, 20213 min read
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Moving at the Speed of Work and Play
Dolls and Blocks and Dress Up Closets and Action Figures are for play. Desks and Pens and Books and Paper are for work. Sitting at a desk...
Educating Gender
Jul 6, 20203 min read
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A Working Definition for Schools Regarding Masculin(ities)
All boys’ high schools, which I have worked for as a teacher, administrator and consultant, are simple to understand and, at the same...
Educating Gender
Jun 8, 20205 min read
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More Male Teachers in Schools, Better Educational Results for Boys? Not So Fast!
The argument goes something like this… The preponderance of female teachers in schools, particularly at the elementary school level, may...
Educating Gender
May 11, 20204 min read
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Turning Your Classroom into a Chrysalis
There is a dirty little lie that teachers tell and it is a complicated one. “I don’t play favorites in my classroom. All of my students...
Educating Gender
Feb 24, 20205 min read
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The Unbearable Choice
When we think about violence, it often looks 1) physical 2) taking place between a perpetrator and a victim and 3) worthy of intervention...
Educating Gender
Jan 6, 20204 min read
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How Great Female Math Teaching Creates a More Just Society
**By Bill Davidson Guest Blogger “I’m going to project two problems that I’d like you to solve on a piece of scrap paper,” I said,...
Educating Gender
Nov 11, 20196 min read
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Under the Microscope (Origin Story II)
It is Fall of 1994 and I am in my second year of teaching and being the English department chair of a school with a unique structure and...
Educating Gender
Oct 7, 20194 min read
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Understanding Mediators and Gender Assumptions: Focusing on the Sin not the Sinner
Students want you to know who they are as individuals and they desperately want to seamlessly meld into the crowd, unnoticed and left...
Educating Gender
Jun 24, 20193 min read
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Nick Hanauer, Educationism is a Thing; The Way You Think About it is Not
Better schools won’t fix America and neither will Nick Hanauer’s assessment of the purposes and goals of education. I was recently sent...
Educating Gender
Jun 17, 20195 min read
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"You Just Get Down To It and Play:" Sylvanas, Anduin and Trends in Games, Gender and Community
Guest Blogger: Dr. Jonathan Cassie Despite the often fevered rhetoric surrounding gaming, playing games and participating in game-based...
Educating Gender
Jun 3, 20195 min read
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Barbara Wagner and “Macho” Education
Everyone is a giddy fan of someone. Some people have Arianna Grande or Bono, some have Venus Williams or Lebron James. Me? I have...
Educating Gender
May 20, 20197 min read
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The Myth of my "Fuzzy" Brain: Access and Confidence for Girls in STEM
Guest Blogger: Alisha Pedowitz I remember exactly when it was that I realized that my brain just isn’t wired for math: 10th grade Algebra...
Educating Gender
May 6, 20196 min read
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Cardboard Cutouts and Humanizing Assessment
For three years, Chris, a very thoughtful and committed science teacher, and I conducted an informal experiment during one of the most...
Educating Gender
Apr 29, 20196 min read
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Can We Get Them Past the Dip?
Seth Godin, the marketing guru and big-time thinker, talks about the DIP. He describes it in his popular podcast, Akimbo, as the end of...
Educating Gender
Apr 22, 20192 min read
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Jason is flexible and attentive, yet remains committed to his high expectations of my work in tackling tough situations and tasks. With a sense of humor and compassion for the rigor of a leadership position, he knows how to guide me with just the right amount of productive stress. I appreciate that.
Daphne Orenshein - Elementary School Principal: Hillel Hebrew Academy
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