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Educating Gender
Feb 10, 20203 min read
Whose Childhood is it Anyway?
I have two students sitting in front of me in my office. The teacher, as teachers do, has brought them to the principal’s office because...
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Educating Gender
Jan 27, 20204 min read
Tomboy Versus Sissy: Crossings Versus Boundaries
As someone who has spent over 25 years hiring faculty and staff for schools, one of my favorite interview questions which I ask...
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Educating Gender
Jan 6, 20204 min read
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...
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Educating Gender
Dec 16, 20194 min read
Children are Complex and Inspiring and Challenging, not Innocent and Wonderful
“What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal child, if he has...
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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
Dec 2, 20194 min read
Let’s Talk About … Girls
Guest Blogger: Tracey Schreier** My four siblings and myself were born in the 1960s in Welkom, South Africa. Welkom was a dry, dusty and...
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Educating Gender
Nov 18, 20192 min read
Teacher Expectations and Talking about Gender
There are no magic wands. Nothing will get tied up in a beautiful bow. It will be imperfect work. Just like anything we attempt to teach...
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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
Nov 4, 20193 min read
Early Childhood Classrooms and Navigating Gendered Space: From Public to Private and Back Again
Walking into an early childhood classroom can be a comforting experience. Everything looks so...familiar. Not much seems to have changed...
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Educating Gender
Sep 16, 20193 min read
The Call to Discipline: The Double Bind of Men in Early Education
For years as a principal of an early childhood through 8th grade school, the prize was always attempting to hire men into the elementary...
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Educating Gender
Sep 9, 20194 min read
The Science Experiment Called Raising Children
The comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, has this bit where he talks about the process of putting his children to sleep. He calls it the “Grand...
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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 19, 20194 min read
Immigration and its Impact on Gender Education
Guest Blogger: "Hannah" (Educating Gender's guest blogger wishes to remain anonymous this week given the very personal nature of the...
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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
Jul 8, 20193 min read
Melinda Gates' Education
The Moment of Lift is about a slow awakening, over years and years, by Melinda Gates, the Co-Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates...
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Educating Gender
Jul 1, 20194 min read
On the Subject of Male Engagement
*Guest Blogger: Ben Schillmoeller “Oh! And you know what else KB? Ben got engaged this weekend. Who knows what “engaged” means?” “It...
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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
Jun 3, 20195 min read
"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...
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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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