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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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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...
Educating Gender
Dec 16, 20194 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Dec 9, 20192 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Nov 18, 20192 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Nov 4, 20193 min read
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The Myth of Neutrality: Artificial Intelligence and The “Teaching” of Technology
The common thinking and the go-to argument when we talk about the gadgets and computers and devices which we use all day long is that the...
Educating Gender
Oct 28, 20194 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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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...
Educating Gender
Sep 16, 20193 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Sep 9, 20194 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Aug 26, 20194 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Aug 19, 20194 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Aug 12, 20195 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Jul 8, 20193 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Jul 1, 20194 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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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...
Educating Gender
Jun 11, 20192 min read
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Sy and Me and the Power of a Single Idea (Origin Story I)
It’s 1983 and I am sitting, as a freshman at Vassar College, in my Introduction to American Politics section. It is the third class of...
Educating Gender
May 27, 20194 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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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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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...
Educating Gender
Apr 15, 20193 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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