Strategies for Addressing School Gender Gaps
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Strategies for Addressing School Gender Gaps
Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 4 to 5 p.m. ETAs a principal, Kelley King was troubled by the gaps she saw between male and female students in reading, writing, and discipline. Through an intensive “boy-friendly school initiative,” involving research, progress monitoring, and professional development, she and her colleagues turned around the low-performance of boys at her school and closed the gap in just a year. And as it turned out, the strategies that helped boys, she says, helped girls as well.
In this chat, King, the author of Writing the Playbook: A Practitioner’s Guide to Creating a Boy-Friendly School, discussed the differences in the ways boys and girls learn and identify common school practices that have unintended negative outcomes for boys. She also answered your questions about closing gender gaps in academic achievement, with focused advice on professional development, relationship building, schoolwide planning, and instructional strategies.
Kelley King is a 25-year veteran educator, an international speaker, an author, and a mother of both a son and a daughter. As a master trainer for the Gurian Institute, Kelley travels widely to deliver keynotes, teacher workshops, and consultation to educators and parents. Additionally, Kelley develops and facilitates cutting-edge training curricula for online teacher education.
As a school administrator, Kelley led her staff to close the gender gap in reading and writing in just one year and, in doing so, gained national media attention. In addition to her new book, Kelley has coauthored two previous books on strategies for teaching boys and girls.
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