Educating Gender
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 23, 2019
- 3 min
The Kavanaugh Calendar: An Educator’s View
This week marks a year since the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh for the open seat...
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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
- Sep 2, 2019
- 3 min
The Writing on the Wall: Creating Greater Gender Equity through Classroom RE-Design Part II
So what can we do in schools to make the atmosphere of the school more gender balanced and fair? The first thing we can do is start to...
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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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Educating Gender
- Jul 8, 2019
- 3 min
Melinda Gates' Education
The Moment of Lift is about a slow awakening, over years and years, by Melinda Gates, the Co-Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates...
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Educating Gender
- Jul 1, 2019
- 4 min
On the Subject of Male Engagement
*Guest Blogger: Ben Schillmoeller “Oh! And you know what else KB? Ben got engaged this weekend. Who knows what “engaged” means?” “It...
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Educating Gender
- Jun 24, 2019
- 3 min
Understanding Mediators and Gender Assumptions: Focusing on the Sin not the Sinner
Students want you to know who they are as individuals and they desperately want to seamlessly meld into the crowd, unnoticed and left...
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Educating Gender
- Jun 17, 2019
- 5 min
Nick Hanauer, Educationism is a Thing; The Way You Think About it is Not
Better schools won’t fix America and neither will Nick Hanauer’s assessment of the purposes and goals of education. I was recently sent...
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Educating Gender
- Jun 11, 2019
- 2 min
Education and Dissonance: The Gordian Knot
Potentially the greatest challenge in education is how do you understand the mind of someone who is learning something for the first...
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Educating Gender
- Jun 3, 2019
- 5 min
"You Just Get Down To It and Play:" Sylvanas, Anduin and Trends in Games, Gender and Community
Guest Blogger: Dr. Jonathan Cassie Despite the often fevered rhetoric surrounding gaming, playing games and participating in game-based...
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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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