Educating Gender
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...
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Educating Gender
Apr 21, 20223 min read
An invitation to Engage: The Pathways Aravali School, India and Gender Sustainability (Part I of 3)
Bhavna’s invitation came in the form of a message on Twitter. The chaotic and happenstance world of social media made a connection that...
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Educating Gender
Sep 14, 20214 min read
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...
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Educating Gender
Apr 20, 20215 min read
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...
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Educating Gender
Mar 3, 20213 min read
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...
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Educating Gender
Jul 6, 20203 min read
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...
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Educating Gender
Mar 16, 20204 min read
The Peace of 1815
If you are a student educated in the United States, it is impossible not to be triggered by the phrase, “the War of 1812”. Yes, of...
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Educating Gender
Dec 9, 20192 min read
There’s an App for That! Utilizing Technology to Pull Back the Gendered Veil on History
As I discussed earlier in a blog post about teaching history, students, because of gender bias, can miss out on critical dimensions of...
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Educating Gender
Nov 25, 20192 min read
Coaching our Way Through History Class
Whoever said that coaches of sports teams would make excellent history teachers? I am unclear how this ever became a thing, but in...
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Educating Gender
Nov 11, 20196 min read
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,...
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Educating Gender
Aug 26, 20194 min read
The Writing on the Wall: Creating Greater Gender Equity through Classroom RE-Design Part I
When I started working for the first time as an educational leader in a school with an elementary level program, I realized quickly that...
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Educating Gender
Aug 12, 20195 min read
Breaking Through: ESD Global and the Audacity to Change the World
I found myself struggling to hit the pad. With 12 other adult men, some of them martial arts experts and others trained in self defense...
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Educating Gender
Aug 5, 20194 min read
Native Americans and Gender: Not all Bias Looks the Same
I just recently learned that Eastern Native American tribes begin their expressions of thought in a good way. So, I am dignifying the...
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Educating Gender
Jun 24, 20193 min read
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...
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Educating Gender
Jun 11, 20192 min read
Education and Dissonance: The Gordian Knot
Potentially the greatest challenge in education is how do you understand the mind of someone who is learning something for the first...
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Educating Gender
May 20, 20197 min read
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...
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Educating Gender
May 6, 20196 min read
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...
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Educating Gender
Apr 29, 20196 min read
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...
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Educating Gender
Apr 8, 20194 min read
Blood, Lots of Blood, Life Saving, Healthy Blood: Clara Barton and Gender Balanced Curriculum
I am thinking about Clara Barton and I am thinking about blood. Lots of blood. Probably hundreds of millions of pints of blood. Barton...
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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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