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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...
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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 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 27, 20194 min read
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...
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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 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
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 22, 20192 min read
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...
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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
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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Educating Gender
Apr 1, 20193 min read
Ralph Waldo Emerson and The Sin of Self-Reliance
In the United States, we are all the prisoners of Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things...
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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
Mar 4, 20195 min read
What Norwich University, a Military Academy, Can Teach Us About Gender Inclusion
In high school and college, I was an athlete in very non-athletic environments. In other words, it didn’t count for very much. None of...
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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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Educating Gender
Feb 18, 20193 min read
On Birthdays at Schools and Donuts
With our long Presidents' Day weekend here, I have been thinking about birthdays. As we get older, the importance and relevance of...
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Educating Gender
Feb 11, 20193 min read
Y2K and School Leadership: Rebooting our Priorities
When the culture assumes one set of principles (male definitions of leadership) and disregards the other (female) then how do you break...
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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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