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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...
Educating Gender
Mar 16, 20204 min read
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Playgrounds and Classrooms and Everything In-between
Jessie is wicked fast. She’s so fast, that when she’s standing still she still looks like she’s moving. For months, the third grade...
Educating Gender
Mar 2, 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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Realistic Self-Defense Training: An Education for Everyone
**Guest Blogger: Rachel Collins If you google “self-defense training near me,” or something similar, you’re likely to get relevant...
Educating Gender
Feb 17, 20206 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Feb 10, 20203 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Jan 27, 20204 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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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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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...
Educating Gender
Dec 2, 20194 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Nov 25, 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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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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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...
Educating Gender
Aug 5, 20194 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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