A little while ago, I wrote a few posts about teaching everyday activism to my sophomores. (here and here) For that lesson, I used an article from Gender Across Borders about Miep Gies. The second-to-last paragraph in this article reads: I wonder how the world would respond to Gies’ actions today. Much has changed in [...]
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You’re right. I don’t know you.
This is a cross-post from Equality 101. You know those days when everything just lines up perfectly and all your synapses start firing and things just connect? Yesterday was one of those days. It started with Adam’s thought-provoking post from yesterday and a conversation that keeps reoccurring with my students, continued during my grad class [...]
Valentine’s Day and The Laramie Project
I have written before about The Laramie Project. Please take a few seconds to read that post – especially the comments – before reading this one. This Valentine’s Day, I was fortunate enough to see a former student in a production of The Laramie Project. It was, quite honestly, one of the most wonderful moments [...]
Female Teachers and Female Students’ Math Anxiety, Part 2
Recently, I posted some thoughts here and at Equality 101 about a study regarding female teachers passing their anxiety toward math to their female students, and my thoughts were met with some dispute, both by Veronica at Girl w/Pen! and in the comments of my post. Makomk in the comments of my post and Veronica [...]
Thoughts on “The Politics of Correction”
This is just a little taste of my new post on Equality 101. “How can I help kids gain fluency in Standard English – the language of power – without obliterating the home language which is a source of pride and personal voice?” – Linda Christensen For a recent school improvement day, the English staff [...]
Female Students, Female Teachers, and Math Anxiety – Oh My!
This is a cross-post from Equality 101. This study has shown up in many places this week, and it bothered me quite a bit. When I first saw it on City Room (the first link provided here), I was angry. The study touts that female students learn math anxiety from their female teachers, but no [...]
Teaching Feminism: Everyday Activism Part 2
Cross-posted with Gender Across Borders I wrote a post a little while ago about teaching everyday activism to my sophomores. I was so energized at the end of this two-day lesson – totally jazzed that they had caught on to the concept of activism so well that they had started talking about what they could [...]
Equality 101
I’d like to introduce to you a brand new blog for teachers and activists! It’s called Equality 101, and yours truly is a contributing writer in the company of some seriously awesome teacher-writer-researchers! Of course, I will still be posting education-related posts here, but I will include much of what you find here over there. [...]
Teaching Feminism: Everyday Activism
It has come to my attention that my so many people either don’t know what “activism” is (“It’s like we need to be active to be healthy?”) or that it is for “other people” (“Angelina Jolie is an activist, right?”). For some, it is a dirty word (“Those animal rights activists throw blood on people!”). [...]
Racism, Sexism, & Classism in Standardized Testing
Today’s guest post on teaching feminism comes from Emily Heroy. You can catch her on the Gender Across Borders Blog, or on twitter. I took the GRE back in November after two months of studying. It was a gruesome two months of hard work, but it had to be done in order for me to [...]
