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...

Disruption in classrooms has a name and it's not Sarah. Her hair is something out of an epic Greek myth. Everyday Sarah comes to school...

Kenny, an 11th grader at a school where I am the academic director, is struggling universally in all his classes. The school which Kenny...

I have written previously about the potential and power of single sex education. Educating Gender examined the work of long time head of...

I had a love-hate relationship with gym class in school. While I loved to run around and play games, I was a heavy child after the age of...

“When adults seek to learn about and from children, the challenge is to take the closely familiar and to render it strange.” Barrie...

Dolls and Blocks and Dress Up Closets and Action Figures are for play. Desks and Pens and Books and Paper are for work. Sitting at a desk...

All boys’ high schools, which I have worked for as a teacher, administrator and consultant, are simple to understand and, at the same...

The argument goes something like this… The preponderance of female teachers in schools, particularly at the elementary school level, may...

Boys used to wear dresses. In the 19th century, it was fairly common for young boys to be brought up wearing girls’ clothing until about...

Shakespeare makes many references to life as a type of play. The author imagines that we are all really on a stage performing our roles...

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...

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...

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...

**Guest Blogger: Rachel Collins If you google “self-defense training near me,” or something similar, you’re likely to get relevant...

As someone who has spent over 25 years hiring faculty and staff for schools, one of my favorite interview questions which I ask...

When we think about violence, it often looks 1) physical 2) taking place between a perpetrator and a victim and 3) worthy of intervention...

“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...

As I discussed earlier in a blog post about teaching history, students, because of gender bias, can miss out on critical dimensions of...

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...