Educating Gender
Aspirational Versus Relational Leadership: The Big Mistake is a Gender Driven One
The first year of my first major leadership position in education was a bit of a disaster. Taking the position of director of curriculum...
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Educating Gender
- Apr 26
- 6 min
Let’s Talk About the Boys (Again)
There’s a predictable level of patter and talk about boys and young men lately. They are, again, in crisis. They are, again, receiving a...
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Educating Gender
- Feb 28
- 4 min
No Homo: Stop Fining, Stop Punishing, and Start Teaching
Recently, the NBA basketball player Cam Thomas, a second year player with the Brooklyn Nets, was fined $40,000 for using the expression...
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Educating Gender
- Dec 7, 2022
- 12 min
On Reading, Literacy, and Boys: Reflections on the "Sold A Story" Podcast
I was truly moved by journalist Emily Hanford’s six-part podcast series, Sold a Story, on reading education and the decisions made in...
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Educating Gender
- Sep 29, 2022
- 16 min
The Bay Area Math Project (BAMP) 1986
Guest Post: Dennis Deets In 1986, two years after graduating from college, I got picked up at The College Preparatory School in Oakland...
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Educating Gender
- Aug 2, 2022
- 4 min
Getting Away With It: Breaking the Rules of School and Narrow Masculine Constructs
Schools are places with rules. Perhaps they are places of rules. It’s hard for educators to imagine a school environment that is unable...
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Educating Gender
- Jul 12, 2022
- 4 min
Mentor Teachers and Classroom Environments: Exploring implicit bias and gender norms
One of my professional roles is as the director of The Mentor Teacher Training Program at American Jewish University’s graduate education...
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Educating Gender
- Jun 14, 2022
- 5 min
On Cheating in Schools: Is It a Gendered Game?
There’s a good chance that Aristotle cheated on some test or exam at some point in his education. Cheating or academic dishonesty has...
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Educating Gender
- May 25, 2022
- 3 min
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
- May 4, 2022
- 4 min
An Invitation to Engage: The Pathways World School Gurgaon India, Gender Sustainability (Part 2 of3)
Anuradha and I went back and forth a number of times over email as I anxiously worked to try and get it right. She is the faculty member...
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Educating Gender
- Apr 21, 2022
- 3 min
An invitation to Engage: The Pathways Aravali School, India and Gender Sustainability (Part I of 3)
Bhavna’s invitation came in the form of a message on Twitter. The chaotic and happenstance world of social media made a connection that...
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Educating Gender
- Mar 30, 2022
- 4 min
Women’s Rights and Afghanistan: An Essential Lesson for Learning Right Now
With the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, the United States and the world watch the painful and difficult withdrawal of American troops...
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Educating Gender
- Feb 3, 2022
- 4 min
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
- Dec 28, 2021
- 4 min
Gender and Implicit Bias: Three Steps to Support New Teachers
One of the most significant challenges for administrators in supporting new teachers is to help them unpack their previous notions of...
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Educating Gender
- Nov 16, 2021
- 6 min
The Myth of Bullying and Harassment: Redefining Masculine Culture in Schools
The Alphas, The Betas, and The Gammas If schools are to provide a space in which boys can reflect upon masculinity and sexual identity,...
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Educating Gender
- Oct 19, 2021
- 3 min
The Dangers of Education as a Vocation
Often, educators are told, in implicit and explicit ways, that they are less than. “Those who cannot do, teach” is the classic line we...
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Educating Gender
- Sep 14, 2021
- 4 min
8 Effective Strategies for Teaching Boys about Gender. Part II: Beyond the Canary in the Coal Mine.
As I mentioned in Part I of this two-part post, the main approach to thinking about boys and getting them more engaged with school and...
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Educating Gender
- Aug 25, 2021
- 3 min
Eight Effective Strategies for Teaching Boys About Gender-Part I: Beyond the Canary in the Coal Mine
Rockets, war reenactments, physical conflict, slingshots, catapults, stock market simulation games, competitions, business...
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Educating Gender
- Aug 10, 2021
- 4 min
Peppermint Patty, Lucy, Sally and Getting into Good Trouble
If you get the chance to travel up to Northern California, you will hopefully make a stop into Charles Schulz’s world. Yes, there is the...
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Educating Gender
- May 25, 2021
- 5 min
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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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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