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This workshop brings together theory and practice to help schools improve the educational journey for boys in boy's schools and coed schools. The event is for all educators who work with boys, at all educational levels. The day is built around powerful research as well has practical applications. In order to take advantage of one anothers' expertise, teachers and administrators are encouraged to submit a proposal for a 45-minute workshop on working effectively with boys, using this form. The deadline to submit a proposal has been extended to October 15.
Schools sending a team of educators will gain the most benefit from the day.
Agenda
9:30 – 10:00 • Registration
10:00 – 11:00 • Keynote Address: The Trouble with Boys - Peg Tyre
Peg Tyre's The Trouble with Boys (2008), is a probing investigation of boys’
underachievement in the United States. “There are people in public
life who talk about gender and school as if it's a see saw. If boys are
up, then girls are down. If girls are up, then boys are down. But
that's a false model. The lives of our children, boys and girls, are
intertwined. There are a lot of concerned parents, educators and policy
makers who, while they don't want to take away from the astonishing
gains our young women are making, are starting to realize that we can
no longer ignore what's happening to boys.” Peg paints a nuanced and
carefully researched picture of the educational, social and cultural
factors that have lead to boys’ pervasive underachievement. She probes
the mismatch between boys and curriculum, the issue of the lack of male
role models in many boys’ lives, and the pernicious impact of
video-games. A careful sifting of the various debates and research,
Peg’s report is intelligent and highly-respected.
11:00 – 11:15 • Break
11:15 – 12:15 • Teaching Boys: A Global Study of Effective Practices - Dr. Richard Hawley
Dr. Richard Hawley is co-author of Teaching Boys: A Global Study of Effective Practice, recently published by the International Boys’ Schools Coalition. Almost 1000 teachers in eighteen boys’ schools around the world were asked to narrate particularly memorable practices and approaches that seemed to work especially well for boys age 12 to 18. In a parallel exercise, over1500 boys in the same schools told stories of especially memorable learning experiences. From this research emerged themes that transcend subjects and illuminate practical strategies for motivating and engaging boys. The report also uncovered the importance boys place on the quality of their relationships with teachers. Dr. Hawley’s presentation will include hands-on work with excerpts and sections of the Teaching Boys report.
12:15 – 1:00 • Lunch provided at Allen-Stevenson School
1:00 – 2:00 • Teaching Boys – Dr. Richard Hawley, continued
2:15 – 3:00 • Working Effectively with Boys - Workshops 1 Click Here for Workshops
3:00 – 3:15 • Break
3:15 – 4:00 • Working Effectively with Boys - Workshops 2 Click Here for Workshops
4:00 – Wrap-up
Speakers
Peg Tyre is a prize-winning investigative reporter and the author of the controversial and widely praised book The Trouble With Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Schools and What Parents and Educators Must Do (Crown 2008). New York Times best-selling writer Michael Thompson, co-author of Raising Cain, has called it "passionate, powerful and persuasive." Dr. Mel Levine, author of A Mind at a Time, called it "vital." He wrote, "Boys have their troubles and The Trouble With Boys sensitively reveals them."
Tyre spent two decades in journalism, as a magazine feature writer at New York magazine, a newspaper reporter at New York Newsday, an on-air correspondent for CNN and most recently, as a long time staff writer for Newsweek, covering social trends and education. She has discussed her stories on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, Anderson Cooper and NPR (Boston).
A graduate of Brown University, she has lectured at Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is a frequent speaker at public and private schools around the nation. She continues to write about education, social trends and culture, and is a non-resident fellow at The Education Sector, a non-partisan educational think tank in Washington, D.C.
Richard Hawley attended Middlebury College, where he completed his B.A. in political science. He went on to graduate studies at Case Western Reserve University, where he earned an M.S. in Management Science and a Ph.D. in political philosophy. He also studied theology for a year at St. John’s College, Cambridge University. In 1968 he began teaching at Cleveland’s University School, where he ultimately served as Headmaster from 1988 until his retirement in 2005. In 1995 he became the founding president of the International Boys Schools Coalition.
His essays, articles and poems have appeared in dozens of literary, scholarly, and commercial journals, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, American Film, Commonweal, America Orion, and The Christian Science Monitor. He has lectured and spoken extensively on child development and topical social issues. His published non-fiction include The Big Issues in the Adolescent Journey, Boys will be Men, and Papers From the Headmaster: Reflections on a World Fit for Children. He has also written two monographs published by the IBSC, The Romance of Boys' Schools and Icarus in our Midst: A Reflection on Boys at Risk. The book-length Beyond the Icarus Factor: Releasing the Free Spirit of Boys appeared in 2008. Dr. Hawley is co-author of Teaching Boys: A Global Study of Effective Practices, published in 2009 by the International Boys' Schools Coalition.
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Registration is now closed. The fee includes a continental breakfast, lunch, and all materials including a copy of Teaching Boys: A Global Study of Effective Practices
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