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Educating Gender
May 18, 20201 min read
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More Male Teachers in Schools, Better Educational Results for Boys? Not So Fast!
The argument goes something like this… The preponderance of female teachers in schools, particularly at the elementary school level, may...
Educating Gender
May 11, 20204 min read
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Act Like a Man...Shifting Perspectives on Gender and the Art of Growing Up
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...
Educating Gender
May 4, 20204 min read
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“Do You Think This Is Okay?”: Performing Gender and Disciplining Students
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...
Educating Gender
Apr 27, 20204 min read
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E-Systems And Teachable Moments
**Guest Blogger: Navah Kelman Becker I read an article the other day in The Atlantic (from 2015) about gender neutral bathrooms. The idea...
Educating Gender
Apr 20, 20204 min read
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Stop calling it Sex Education: Human Development Classes and Reinforcing Gender Bias
There is perhaps no more embarrassing moment in a middle schooler’s life than having to sit through Human Development class in 7th grade...
Educating Gender
Mar 23, 20204 min read
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The Peace of 1815
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...
Educating Gender
Mar 16, 20204 min read
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Making the Learning of Math (and Education in General) More Elegant
Somewhere along the dotted line of human history, we imagined that math was a subject that was known before it was taught. Inherent,...
Educating Gender
Mar 9, 20203 min read
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Playgrounds and Classrooms and Everything In-between
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...
Educating Gender
Mar 2, 20204 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Feb 24, 20205 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Feb 17, 20206 min read
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Whose Childhood is it Anyway?
I have two students sitting in front of me in my office. The teacher, as teachers do, has brought them to the principal’s office because...
Educating Gender
Feb 10, 20203 min read
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An American Conspiracy
In 1893 the National Educational Association (NEA) convened a commission to make recommendations regarding what would be the content,...
Educating Gender
Feb 3, 20208 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Jan 27, 20204 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Jan 20, 20204 min read
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Good Enough: Let’s Celebrate What Boys Know is True About School
It’s the A-. On Monday, in my first of two sections of Advanced Placement English, I hand back a set of papers on King Lear. Unless you...
Educating Gender
Jan 13, 20204 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Jan 6, 20204 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Dec 16, 20194 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Dec 9, 20192 min read
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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...
Educating Gender
Dec 2, 20194 min read
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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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