Educating Gender
Pre-Gaming the Game of Assessments: Helping Students Conquer Stereotype Threat
In doing reading and research over the past 15 years and then more specifically for my book, The Gender Equation in Schools, it's almost...
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Educating Gender
Sep 7, 20232 min
The Five-Second Rule: A Solution So Simple But Also So Hard
Teachers can talk. And talk and talk. They are, what I call, verbalists. So much of what they have to communicate and get across to their...
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Educating Gender
Aug 22, 20232 min
Small Changes, Big Results, Part I: Getting to Know Students as Gendered Learners
There is nothing more productive that teachers can do at the beginning of the school year than get to know their students. The more...
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Educating Gender
Aug 16, 20234 min
A Gender based Argument For a New World Wide Web of Learning
In the 2007-08 school year, I had the honor and privilege of being able to take a sabbatical from my school and work with an outstanding...
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Educating Gender
Jul 25, 20234 min
Surprising Conversations: Talking to Early Childhood Parents About Gender and Education
Working with early childhood programs and centers regarding my new book, The Gender Equation in Schools, has been one of the most...
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Educating Gender
Jul 9, 20233 min
Get Rid of TikTok, Keep What TikTok Tells Us About Our Students
I hate Tiktok. I love what Tiktok videos are telling me as an educator. Besides being obsessed with vids about English Bulldogs (See:...
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Educating Gender
May 30, 20236 min
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, 20236 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, 20234 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, 202212 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, 202216 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, 20224 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, 20224 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, 20225 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, 20223 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, 20224 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, 20223 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, 20224 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, 20224 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, 20214 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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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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