Educating Gender
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...
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Educating Gender
- Feb 17, 2020
- 6 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Jan 27, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Jan 20, 2020
- 4 min
David “Cockeyed Mulligan” Ablin: A Past History of Violence (Origin Story III)
I am somewhere between 5 and 6 years old when my father began telling me stories about his father, my grandfather. The reason he needs to...
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Educating Gender
- Jan 6, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Dec 16, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Dec 9, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Dec 2, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Nov 25, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Nov 18, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Nov 11, 2019
- 6 min
How Great Female Math Teaching Creates a More Just Society
**By Bill Davidson Guest Blogger “I’m going to project two problems that I’d like you to solve on a piece of scrap paper,” I said,...
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Educating Gender
- Nov 4, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Oct 28, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Oct 7, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Sep 16, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Sep 9, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Aug 26, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Aug 19, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Aug 12, 2019
- 5 min
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...
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Educating Gender
- Aug 5, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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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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