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Educating Gender
May 25, 20223 min read
An invitation to Engage:The Pathways World School Gurgaon, India and Gender Sustainability(Part 3/3)
The final two sessions of my work with the Pathways World School Gurgaon in India, discussed in Part I and Part II of this blog post,...
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Educating Gender
Feb 3, 20224 min read
Want to Transform Middle School Education? Teach Girls (and Boys) Empowerment Self Defense
If we could do anything of great importance in education in the United States it would be to completely rewrite the script on what we...
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Educating Gender
May 25, 20215 min read
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...
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Educating Gender
Jun 8, 20205 min read
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...
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Educating Gender
May 4, 20204 min read
Act Like a Man...Shifting Perspectives on Gender and the Art of Growing Up
Boys used to wear dresses. In the 19th century, it was fairly common for young boys to be brought up wearing girls’ clothing until about...
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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
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 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
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 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
Jun 17, 20195 min read
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...
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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 13, 20193 min read
Traveling on Airplanes and Current Perceptions of Educators
How do Americans experience teachers and education in general? My great research based litmus test is when I fly, on an airplane. On...
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Educating Gender
Apr 15, 20193 min read
The Power Pose!! Giving Everyone their Space in the Classroom
Guest Blogger: Jessica Laux Yaffe “You should watch this TED talk I saw on power poses,” a friend told me when I expressed my anxiety at...
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Educating Gender
Mar 25, 20193 min read
Want to Find Out about Gender? Just Ask the Students
I am reproducing the following excerpt from an article entitled, “A Gender-Inclusive approach to English/Language Arts Methods: Literacy...
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Educating Gender
Mar 18, 20193 min read
Gender is Unavoidable: Parents Just Need to Ask the Right Questions
Going from middle school to high school, for many students, feels like paragliding across the Grand Canyon for the first time without an...
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Educating Gender
Mar 11, 20198 min read
Getting Punched in the Face: On Masculinity, Recess, and the Tragic Irony of Boys being Boys
It is me then David then Brandon sitting on the bench outside, but there is nothing happening on the yard. Recess ended 10 minutes ago. ...
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Educating Gender
Feb 25, 201910 min read
ON KEPT PRINCES, THE BELL CURVE AND OUR BOYS*
*The following post first appeared as a full length article in HaYidion the official journal for PRIZMAH: The Center for Jewish Day...
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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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