Educating Gender
Sy and Me and the Power of a Single Idea (Origin Story I)
It’s 1983 and I am sitting, as a freshman at Vassar College, in my Introduction to American Politics section. It is the third class of...
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Educating Gender
- May 20, 2019
- 7 min
Barbara Wagner and “Macho” Education
Everyone is a giddy fan of someone. Some people have Arianna Grande or Bono, some have Venus Williams or Lebron James. Me? I have...
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Educating Gender
- May 13, 2019
- 3 min
Traveling on Airplanes and Current Perceptions of Educators
How do Americans experience teachers and education in general? My great research based litmus test is when I fly, on an airplane. On...
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Educating Gender
- May 6, 2019
- 6 min
The Myth of my "Fuzzy" Brain: Access and Confidence for Girls in STEM
Guest Blogger: Alisha Pedowitz I remember exactly when it was that I realized that my brain just isn’t wired for math: 10th grade Algebra...
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Educating Gender
- Apr 29, 2019
- 6 min
Cardboard Cutouts and Humanizing Assessment
For three years, Chris, a very thoughtful and committed science teacher, and I conducted an informal experiment during one of the most...
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Educating Gender
- Apr 22, 2019
- 2 min
Can We Get Them Past the Dip?
Seth Godin, the marketing guru and big-time thinker, talks about the DIP. He describes it in his popular podcast, Akimbo, as the end of...
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Educating Gender
- Apr 15, 2019
- 3 min
The Power Pose!! Giving Everyone their Space in the Classroom
Guest Blogger: Jessica Laux Yaffe “You should watch this TED talk I saw on power poses,” a friend told me when I expressed my anxiety at...
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Educating Gender
- Apr 8, 2019
- 4 min
Blood, Lots of Blood, Life Saving, Healthy Blood: Clara Barton and Gender Balanced Curriculum
I am thinking about Clara Barton and I am thinking about blood. Lots of blood. Probably hundreds of millions of pints of blood. Barton...
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Educating Gender
- Apr 1, 2019
- 3 min
Ralph Waldo Emerson and The Sin of Self-Reliance
In the United States, we are all the prisoners of Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things...
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Educating Gender
- Mar 25, 2019
- 3 min
Want to Find Out about Gender? Just Ask the Students
I am reproducing the following excerpt from an article entitled, “A Gender-Inclusive approach to English/Language Arts Methods: Literacy...
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Educating Gender
- Mar 18, 2019
- 3 min
Gender is Unavoidable: Parents Just Need to Ask the Right Questions
Going from middle school to high school, for many students, feels like paragliding across the Grand Canyon for the first time without an...
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Educating Gender
- Mar 11, 2019
- 8 min
Getting Punched in the Face: On Masculinity, Recess, and the Tragic Irony of Boys being Boys
It is me then David then Brandon sitting on the bench outside, but there is nothing happening on the yard. Recess ended 10 minutes ago. ...
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Educating Gender
- Mar 4, 2019
- 5 min
What Norwich University, a Military Academy, Can Teach Us About Gender Inclusion
In high school and college, I was an athlete in very non-athletic environments. In other words, it didn’t count for very much. None of...
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Educating Gender
- Feb 25, 2019
- 10 min
ON KEPT PRINCES, THE BELL CURVE AND OUR BOYS*
*The following post first appeared as a full length article in HaYidion the official journal for PRIZMAH: The Center for Jewish Day...
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Educating Gender
- Feb 18, 2019
- 3 min
On Birthdays at Schools and Donuts
With our long Presidents' Day weekend here, I have been thinking about birthdays. As we get older, the importance and relevance of...
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Educating Gender
- Feb 11, 2019
- 3 min
Y2K and School Leadership: Rebooting our Priorities
When the culture assumes one set of principles (male definitions of leadership) and disregards the other (female) then how do you break...
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Educating Gender
- Feb 4, 2019
- 4 min
A Point Earned is the Point: Gendered Reactions to Grades and Achievement
Guest Blogger: Leora Smith “Ms. Smith,” he queries, with widened eyes and a smirk, “how many points is this paragraph worth?” I slowly...
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Educating Gender
- Jan 28, 2019
- 3 min
What Does It Mean to be a Teacher of Math?(Just Meet Daphne Orenshein)
On Saturdays, Daphne walks. She does not do it alone. She has a group of friends who get on their working shoes and do their power walk....
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Educating Gender
- Jan 21, 2019
- 4 min
Describing Students as Learners: Saying Too Much and Too Little at the Same Time
In workshops I run for teachers in schools and graduate education programs, I ask teachers to do a simple language exercise. I give them...
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Educating Gender
- Jan 14, 2019
- 4 min
Career Day at Schools: What Our Young Women and Men Need to Hear about Professional Life
Career and job counseling in high schools and colleges has a history. As late as the 1980’s, schools used career inventories in order to...
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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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