The Gender Equation in Schools, Jason Ablin
The Gender Equation in Schools, Jason Ablin
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The Gender Equation in Schools
How to Create Equity and Fairness for All Students

Author: Jason Ablin

Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/11/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Education


Synopsis

This compelling book takes you inside a teacher's journey to explore the question of gender in education. Jason Ablin uses his background in math teaching, school leadership, and neuroscience to present expert interviews, research, and anecdotes about gender bias in schools and how it impacts our best efforts to educate children. He provides practical takeaways on how teachers and leaders can do better for students. In this book, there are step-by-step guides for facilitating faculty-wide conversations around gender; writing learning reports without gender bias; using student assessments to check gendered attitudes about learning; evaluating learning spaces; and creating an inquiry map of your classroom. As a teacher, administrator, DEI director, or homeschooling parent, with the strategies and stories in this book, you'll be ready to embark upon your own journey to balance the gender equation and create greater equity for all of your students.

About Jason Ablin

Jason Ablin has served as a teacher, department chair, principal, and head of school. He holds national certification in leadership coaching and mentoring from the National Association of School Principals and has been supporting and mentoring new leaders throughout the country for over ten years. At American Jewish University and in school-based teacher workshops, he trains teachers to create gender aware classrooms and has taught year-long courses to teams of educators in graduate level seminars regarding the relationship between cognitive neuroscience and education. He is also the founder and director of AJU's Mentor Teacher Certification Program.


Reviews

Goodreads review by April on April 13, 2023

A lot of this has very considered ideas about how gender assumptions and biases might unknowingly exist in schools and classrooms and why this matters. Many of the examples seemed to be from middle school (where the author used specific anecdotes from his own classroom and the students for whom he i......more

Goodreads review by Tzipi on July 23, 2022

This book is an extremely thoughtful reflection on gender bias in schools. As a teacher and school district administrator, I have read quite a bit about this issue. Jason Ablin provides unique and honest insights into the ways that he, and other teachers, inadvertently reinforce gender roles and ste......more

Goodreads review by Brooke on April 17, 2023

Gender, Equity, & Inclusion is a huge passion of mine and I will stand on my soapbox all day to advocate for students across the gender spectrum. In the past several years, I have learned a lot about inequity in education related to race, culture, and gender. This book did give me some new informati......more

Goodreads review by Megs on May 05, 2023

3.5⭐️......more