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The Eighth International Conference
on Single-Gender Education
Houston, Texas
Saturday and Sunday, October 20 and 21, 2012
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The Eighth International Conference on
Single-Gender Education took place Saturday and Sunday,
October 20 and 21, 2012, in Houston, Texas.
Our focus is on everything related to single-gender education: gender-specific instructional strategies in the classroom;
gender-specific motivational strategies; art, music, physical education, competitive sports,
and other co-curricular activities;
and community service.
We welcome boys' schools, girls' schools, and mixed schools with single-gender classrooms.
We welcome Catholic schools, independent schools, and public schools including public charter schools.
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Speakers and their topics
Speakers are listed alphabetically, first by the speaker's
nation of residence; within the United States, alphabetically
by state; within each state, alphabetically by the last name
of the first presenter.
Australia
Tim Smith is a
physics instructor at Mount Alvernia, a Catholic girls'
school near Brisbane Australia. He will share his
girl-friendly instructional strategies for post-compulsory high
school physics, roughly the equivalent of AP physics in the
United States. When Mr. Smith arrived at Nonsuch High School
for Girls, a publicly-funded girls' school in London England,
only four girls were enrolled in post-compulsory physics; but
after four years, Mr. Smith had boosted the enrollment to
more than 50 girls. Come find out how he did it!
Canada
Dr. Jackie Button is a professor at the
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), at the University of Toronto.
She will share the results of her study of the single-gender program at
White Oaks Secondary School in Oakville, Ontario. Her program evaluation included
academic achievement, behavior, and perceptions of student engagement in
single-gender and co-ed classrooms.
Barbara Csenge is Director of Learning Enrichment at St. Michael's College School,
a boys' Catholic school in Toronto, Ontario enrolling boys in grades 7 through 12.
Ms. Csenge will share how her school supports
boys with exceptional learning profiles defined by medical needs,
psychoeducational assessments and most recently a concussion protocol.
Dr. Michael Leatch is Director of Student Services at Crescent School,
a boys' independent school in Toronto enrolling boys in grades 3 through 12.
To date Crescent has been involved in more than 40 research projects
through partnerships with leading universities and non-profit organizations.
In his presentation, Dr. Leatch will explain the school's current program
of research, including some of the key findings that have resulted from
the research program with regard to boys' education.
Colombia
Laura Malagon and Constanza Pena are teachers at Gimnasio Vermont, a co-ed independent school in
Bogota enrolling students in pre-K through grade 12. The school was founded as a girls' school in 1945;
when boys were enrolled, beginning in 1997, the boys were taught in boys' classrooms while the girls
continued to be taught in girls' classrooms. The school continues to offer single-gender classrooms
on a co-ed campus. In this session, the presenters will share some of their gender-specific
strategies for teaching Spanish as a mother tongue; for teaching social studies; and for
teaching English as a foreign language.
Iceland
Margret Pala Olafsdottir is the founder of the Hjallistefnan, the Hjalli model of education,
a pedagogy based
on experiential and "adventure-based" learning, which employs single-gender classrooms.
She has found that the single-gender classroom format "liberates the children from
traditional sex-roles." Her presentation at our 2005 conference was very popular.
The results of her two decades of work are reported in her 2011 book Uppeldi er aevintyri
but if you can't read Icelandic that won't help you much. This is a rare chance to hear
this renowned pioneer share (in English) what she has
accomplished with regard to breaking down gender stereotypes:
engaging girls in carpentry and engaging boys
in making salads!
The United
States
Arizona
Xavier College Prep is a girls' Catholic school in
Phoenix, Arizona. Janet Mambrino is co-chair of the math department at Xavier;
Gabriele Reil is chair of the Science department; and Catherine Wyman is director
of the Technology program. Together, they will share how they engage girls in STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) through community service. Girls
solve real-world engineering and environmental science problems, in service to
(and accountable to) one of several local non-profit organizations.
Arkansas
Lori Clark and Heather Woodruff teach at
Allen Elementary School in Siloam Springs. They will share what
they have learned from three years of teaching both
girls and boys single-gender classrooms in the early elementary grades,
including boy-friendly and girl-friendly instructional strategies.
Denise Wilmott, Tammie Murray, and Rachel Hickman, from Southside Elementary School in Siloam Springs Arkansas,
will share what they have learned from three years of teaching single-gender classrooms, regarding boy-friendly
instructional strategies in late elementary grades (3rd grade through 5th grade).
Florida
Elizabeth Albert and Laurie
LaMondie will give a presentation entitled
"The Good, the Bad, and the Questionable: best practices for single-gender classrooms,"
sharing what they have learned from eight years
of teaching single-gender classrooms at Woodward Avenue
Elementary School in Deland, Florida.
Most educators agree that students in elementary school and middle school
need breaks, a.k.a. "Brain Breathers", in order to concentrate and focus better.
What are the best "brain breathers" for boys and how do those differ from the best
"brain breathers" for girls? Join Megan Falcone and Paige Newinski as they
share not only what they have learned about gender differences in "brain breathers"
but also about gender differences in kinesthetic learning.
Dr. Bette Heins, Doug MacIsaac, Dr. Kathy Piechura-Couture, and Dr. Mercedes Tichenor all work with
the Nina Hollis Institute for Educational Reform
at Stetson University in Deland, Florida. For the past seven years, they have partnered with local public schools
to study single-gender classrooms. In two consecutive presentations, they will address the topic of
"Single-Gender for Newbies." The first presentation will be for administrators, addressing questions such as:
How do you launch a successful single-gender program? How do you get your district to support such an initiative?
How do you get parents onboard? How do you assess your program? The second session will be for teachers,
addressing gender-specific instructional strategies for various content areas.
Jodi Lewitt teaches 5th-grade single-gender classrooms at Woodward
Avenue Elementary School, a Title I in Deland; Elizabeth Senez is a media
specialist at Woodward Avenue Elementary; and Doug MacIsaac is an instructor
at the Hollis Institute at Stetson University, also in Deland. Together,
they will describe how they use technology - iPads, iPods, and Kindles -
differently in girls' classrooms than in boys' classrooms.
The late tween and early teen years can be tough for girls. The right literature,
with strong female role models, can support and inspire girls during these years.
In this presentation, Paige Newinski and Megan Falcone share not
only the most powerful and inspiring books for girls in 4th through 8th grade,
but also instructional strategies which empower girls and help them to find their voice.
Tamara Perry, Diana Wagner, and Ashley Porter are teachers at Palmetto Elementary School
in Poinciana, Florida. They will give two presentations sharing
what they have learned from three years of leading girls'
classrooms and boys' classrooms with regard to gender-specific instructional strategies,
gender-specific classroom managment, and gender-specific motivational strategies.
One presentation will be devoted to girl-friendly strategies;
the other presentation will address boy-friendly strategies.
Dana Zacharko teaches all-girls classrooms at Woodward Avenue Elementary School in
Deland, Florida; Jennifer Robinson is a school counselor at Woodward Avenue Elementary;
and Torrence Broxton is school principal. Together they will share strategies which
they have deployed to minimize "drama" and social tension in the all-girls classroom,
and to create a warm and relaxed classroom in which everyone feels at home.
Idaho
Dr. Debra Yates is associate professor of education at the College of Idaho
in Caldwell, Idaho. She will share the results of six years of collaboration
with a local public elementary school offering single-gender classrooms,
addressing questions such as:
What do parents and teachers think about the program? How have these perceptions
changed over time? Are there differences between effective teaching strategies
for girls and for boys? Has the single-gender program been effective?
Louisiana
Sister Lynne Lieux, RSCJ, is headmistress of the Schools of the Sacred Heart in
Grand Coteau, Louisiana. The Schools of the Sacred Heart include a girls' school (PK-12)
and a boys' school (PK-10).
Sister Lieux will describe the spiritual needs and desires of young women, pre-adolescent through young adulthood,
and how adults can help to nurture faith.
In the quest to find oneself, young women (and men) often turn to the transcendent as a way of understanding
the complex world in which they find themselves.
Adults can play a pivotal role in developing the spiritual lives of young people;
but this is not easily done, for most young people today are not inclined to embrace institutional religion.
In this presentation, Sister Lieux will share
some of what she has learned from 25 years of working with teenagers
about how to help young women discover God within them and around them.
Maryland
Kate Morin is head of the Upper School at Stone Ridge School
of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda Maryland.
Bill Hulseman is Director of Social Action at Stone Ridge, and
Denise Key is Upper School Counselor.
Together, they will share what they have learned about the
transformative power of service learning for girls,
deploying JoAnn Deak’s three C’s: competence, confidence, and connectedness;
Michigan
Dr. Celeste Diehm, principal of Baker Elementary School in Wayland, Michigan, will share her experience
of the entire process of launching and sustaining and growing a single-gender program over many years.
That includes:
understanding the rationale for single-gender programs in early elementary education;
assigning teachers to mixed classrooms and to single-gender classrooms;
helping parents determine which format is best for their child;
meshing mixed classrooms with single-gender classrooms;
and assessing program results.
Beverly Hibbler is the founding principal of Detroit International Academy,
a girls' public school enrolling girls in grades K-12. She tells the story
of her school in an interview
in the journal Advances in Gender & Education. Ms. Hibbler and
two teachers from her school, Carmen Perry and April Dunn,
will give a presentation describing how they create "a community of sisterhood"
at their school, both in and out of the classroom,
through programs such as Sister to Sister, Lego League, and Vex Robotics. In a separate presentation,
Ms. Hibbler will share how
her school has created community partnerships with entities as diverse as the
Michigan Opera House, Girl Scouts of America, Wayne State University, and
Michigan State University; she will also describe some of her school's innovative
community service opportunities. Joined by her school's JROTC instructor,
Rocky Mack, Major, US-Army (Retired), she and Major Mack will explain the role of the JROTC
in helping to teach leadership skills.
Father John Huber, C.S.B., Ed.D., is principal of Detroit Catholic Central High School, a boys' Catholic school.
He will give a presentation describing what is required for a boy to become a man of faith.
Unlike the acquisition of knowledge in an academic curriculum,
spiritual formation requires: a sound understanding of theology;
an environment which encourages and honors mature responsibility, and teachers and coaches who challenge each student
not only to be his personal best, but to be motivated to be an active part of a community.
That faith-based community must equally esteem academics, and athletics, and the arts as a way of encountering the sacred.
Dr. Huber will be joined by Mitchell Hancock, Dean of Students and Mark Gagnon, Chair of the Science Department.
Missouri
Reverend John Roberts is Head of School at Covenant Christian Academy,
an elementary school in St. Louis.
In this presentation, Rev. Roberts will explain how he and his staff seek to provide a school
which is "boy-friendly" without being unfriendly to girls. He will describe popular school
activities such as Lightsaber Day - when all students are welcome to whack each other with
foam lightsabers (but nobody is required to). He will also explain
the rationale underlying some school policies which are unusual in the United States,
such as allowing students to carry pocket knives.
Nevada
Dr. Margaret Ferrara is associate professor of education at the University of Nevada at Reno. She will give three
presentations at our conference. The first presentation will be an update on her very popular presentation from previous
years, sharing what she has learned about the characteristics of great teaching for boys, and how that differs from
the characteristics of great teaching for girls. The second presentation will be on qualitative assessment of single-gender
programs using tools such as focus groups, surveys, and guided reflection. Dr. Ferrara's third presentation will be
on statistical assessment of single-gender programs using rigorous quantitative pre/post comparisons.
Jodi Notch has given very popular presentations at three of our
previous annual conferences, sharing what she has learned
over her four years of teaching single-gender
classrooms at Ruben Diaz Elementary School in Las Vegas.
In this presentation, titled "My Boys Just Won't Sit Still!"
she shares her boy-specific strategies for classroom
management. The key idea is to work with boys' energy,
rather than trying to suppress it.
Ohio
Cheryl Hamilton, Patricia Jackson, &
Sara Caesar-WIlliams are teachers at Columbus Intermediate School
in Bedford, Ohio. They will share what they have learned about
girl-friendly instructional strategies and girl-friendly
classroom management in an all-girls elementary classroom (grades
4, 5, and 6).
Iwanda Huggins, principal of Columbus Intermediate School
in Bedford Ohio, along with Lea Travis, Director of
Elementary Curriculum, and Monique Winston, special education supervisor,
will share how the process by which they launched and
sustained their single-gender program: why they decided to offer
single-gender classrooms, how they developed the program,
how they selected students, and how they tracked outcomes.
Darnise Stephens & Maggie Joyce are
teachers at Columbus Intermediate School
in Bedford, Ohio. They will share what they have learned about
boy-friendly instructional strategies and boy-friendly
classroom management in an all-boys elementary classroom (grades
5 and 6).
Pennsylvania
Dr. Leonard Sax is host of the Conference, and author of
Boys Adrift and Girls on the Edge. He will share some of what he has learned
from his visits to more than 300 schools over the past 12 years regarding how to use gender-specific
instructional strategies to break down gender stereotypes: to engage more girls in physics and computer
programming; to engage more boys in creative writing and poetry.
South Carolina
David Chadwell was appointed in the summer of 2007 to oversee single-gender initiatives
in public schools across the state of South Carolina, a position he held through the fall of 2011
when the position was eliminated. He worked with more than 100 schools across South Carolina during those four years.
Mr. Chadwell will give three presentations:
one on "Creating and Sustaining a Single-Gender Program in Public Schools",
a second presentation on "Gender in the Classroom: bringing structure and connection to classroom practice",
and a third presentation "Taking it to the next level: advanced strategies for experienced teachers and administrators",
jointly with Skyles Calhoun (see Virginia, below). Mr. Chadwell is author
of A Gendered Choice: designing and implementing single-sex programs and schools.
Jennifer Gribben teaches English/Language Arts, and
Marcel Marina is a Special Education teacher,
at Ronald E. McNair Middle School
in Lake City. Together they will share how they use
community-building activities
-- games and hands-on learning activities -- differently in
girls' classrooms and boys' classrooms, both in regular and in special education
classrooms.
Maria James teaches science, Bryant Hicks teaches
social studies, and Chris Fuecker teaches
English/Language Arts, at Ronald E. McNair Middle School in Lake City.
Together, they will share how they differentiate instruction in each
of these content areas, for girls and for boys, in their
single-gender classrooms.
Glenn Matthews teaches social studies, and Camille Moore
teaches math,
at Ronald E. McNair Middle School
in Lake City. Together they will share what they have learned
about gender-specifc instructional strategies - not only for
math and social studies separately, but for integrating
math with social studies - in girls' classrooms and in
boys' classrooms.
Leah Taylor is a teacher at J. Paul Truluck Middle School in Lake City, South Carolina.
Because she teaches the same mathematics content in all-girls classrooms,
in all-boys classrooms, and in coed classrooms,
she enjoys a unique perspective on how to customize her instructional strategies for each
of these classroom formats. In this workshop she shares some of the gender-aware strategies she has
developed for teaching middle school math: the same content, but different pedagogy.
Texas
Dr. Michon Benson is Executive Principal of the WALIPP-TSU Preparatory Academy in Houston. She will lead a
panel discussion of the rationale for single-gender education in urban schools, for girls and for boys.
San Antonio Academy is a boys' PK-8 school founded in 1886.
Luisa Bolen is Chair of the Spanish Department and also teaches Spanish in grades 6-8;
Iliana Hieger teaches
Spanish in grades PK-2; Natalie Bock teaches Spanish in grades 3-5.
In this presentation, they share their boy-friendly instructional strategies
for Spanish. Roughly 50% of the program's 8th-grade graduates consistently
place in the top 5% of the National Spanish Exam.
Nakia Douglas is the founding principal of the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy (BOMLA),
a boys' public school in Dallas; Richard Edison teaches history at BOMLA. Together with four student leaders
from BOMLA, they will give a presentation including a short video about the school, describing
how they created a school environment in which it's cool for a boy to be a scholar; how they
partner with parents and with the community; and how the school has transformed the lives of students.
Paula Harris is an elected member of the Board of Education for
Houston public schools. Delesa O'Dell Thomas is Principal of
the Young Women's College Preparatory Academy (YWCPA), a girls' public school
in Houston launched and operated under the authority of the Houston
Board of Education. Jyoti Malhan is Dean of Instruction at YWCPA. Together,
they will give a presentation describing the launch process, the challenges,
the strategic marketing and the major milestones of the school's
first year.
Jeffrey Presberg is the founding headmaster of Western Academy,
a new boys' liberal arts school in Houston. He will give a presentation
entitled "Dream Big, Think Small: the dangerous adventure of founding
a private liberal arts school for boys in today's cultural landscape."
He will focus on several vital elements to a successful founding,
including an attractive educational vision - a dream - and keeping sight of the small
in strategic thinking and implementation, from fundraising to curriculum to
budgets.
Dr. Tarawa Redwood will share her research on the impact of the single-sex classroom format
in public schools on mathematics and reading performance of seventh grade students
based upon the state assessment, the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS).
This research was conducted under the auspices of Texas Southern University in Houston.
For nine years, Roynell Young played professional football in the National Football League,
including a trip to the Super Bowl.
After retiring from the NFL, Mr. Young looked for a way to give back to the community. In 1990, he
started an after-school program for boys in a low-income neighborhood of Houston.
In 1995, he created a boys' public charter school, which has grown to become
the Pro-Vision community. The remarkable story of Roynell Young
was featured in
The New York Times
and in a feature interview in Advances in Gender & Education.
In this presentation, Mr. Young will share what he has learned from two decades of working with boys
in a low-income neighborhood in Houston. He will be joined by his colleagues
Yolonda Kelley and Carrie Tate.
Virginia
In 2005, most students attending Woodbridge Middle School were from middle-income families.
Then the district changed the school's catchment boundaries.
Roughly half of the student body now qualifies for free or reduced-price meals.
Nevertheless, grades and test scores of students at Woodbridge Middle School, compared with 2005, have improved significantly.
The principal, Skyles Calhoun, was featured in the
May 2012 issue of Principal Leadership,
in an article celebrating the success of his school.
Mr. Calhoun instituted single-gender classrooms at his school in 2006 after carefully studying
best practice for single-gender classrooms; and he has closely monitored what works and what has not worked
over the past six years. In this informal session, entitled "Taking It to the Next Level",
Mr. Calhoun will share strategies which he and his team have developed which have boosted academic achievement
for both girls and boys, and reduced discipline referrals. This session will be offered jointly with David Chadwell
(see South Carolina, above).
Dr. Abigail James, author of Teaching the Male Brain, will give a presentation sharing tips
for boy-specific best practice in the classroom. Dr. James will also give a second presentation, based
on her most recent book Active Lessons for Active Brains, describing how experiential learners
benefit from a hands-on approach as well as how to adapt material from their own classrooms to an active approach.
Jamie Mullenaux teaches 4th-grade girls in an all-girls classroom at Mechanicsville Elementary School in
Hanover County. In this presentation, she will share how she used the all-girls format to engage girls to
become hands-on learners in science, conducting their own experiments in collaboration with other girls.
Students left the classroom with a greater appreciation for science, greater mastery of
the skills involved in scientific investigation, and more comfortable seeing themselves as scientists.
Dr. Nina Smith of Alexandria will share what she has learned about Black girls from low-income neighborhoods,
and their preparedness for college. Many of these girls are the first in their families to attend a four-year college.
Feeling good about oneself is not enough to be prepared for successful college matriculation. In this presentation,
Dr. Smith shares her research into the question of how best to prepare Black girls for a successful experience
at college.
Wisconsin
Divine Savior Holy Angels High School (DSHA) is a girls' Catholic school in Milwaukee.
Deb Mueller is Dean of Students at DSHA; Susan Reidy is chair of the Science Department;
and Tom Montgomery teaches social studies. Together, they will share their action research
in social studies, science, and math classrooms, deploying
recent findings from cognitive psychology - especially the work of Carol Dweck - along with
new ideas about girls and emotional intelligence, implemented in consultation with Rachel Simmons,
author of Odd Girl Out and The Curse of the Good Girl.
How
much does it cost? How do I register?
How much does it cost?
The registration fee is $400.00 per person, for individuals
registering alone.
For groups of 2, 3, or 4, registering together, the
fee drops to $350.00 per person.
For groups of 5 or more, registering together, the
registration fee is $300.00 per person.
Speakers receive a discount of $100 off the applicable
registration fee.
Refunds:We will refund 90% of the
registration fee if your refund request is received before
September 1; between September 1 and October 1, just 80%;
after October 1, no refunds will be provided.
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If you have questions about methods of
payment, please call us at 610 296 2821 during our
business hours (9 AM to 4 PM Eastern time, Monday through
Friday), and ask to speak with Katie.
What's
the conference agenda: when does it start, when does it end,
and what's included?
Friday evening, October 19, we will have a
welcoming reception which will also serve as a time for
conference registration. If you are able to join us Friday
evening between 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM, this will be a good time
to meet others who are interested in single-sex education.
Light refreshments will be served. We have invited all of our
presenters to prepare posters to display at this session, to
promote an opportunity to "meet and mingle." If you
are able to join us Friday evening, that's great; but the
formal activities of the conference do not begin until
Saturday morning.
Saturday morning, October 20, you will first need to pick up
your registration packet (including your conference program
and nametag) if you didn't do so Friday evening. Then you can
enjoy a light breakfast before the conference officially
opens at 9 AM Saturday morning with a general/plenary
session.
The first breakout session will begin at 10:45 Saturday
morning. There will be at least ten different sessions to
choose from during each of the five breakout sessions.
We will have a hot buffet lunch beginning at 12 noon on
Saturday. At lunchtime, you will have the OPTION of sitting
with people who are interested in all-girls classrooms, or
all-boys classrooms, as well as other tables just for charter
schools and other tables primarily for independent schools.
Attendees at previous conferences have found these tables to
provide good opportunities to network with people with
similar interests.
The second breakout session will begin at 1:15 PM Saturday
afternoon, and the third breakout session will begin around
2:30 PM. After the third breakout session, we will have
coffee and soft drinks available next to the conference
bookstore, which will provide another chance to meet and
mingle with other attendees. Saturday evening we have no events
scheduled, so you will be on your own to enjoy the
attractions of the Houston
Galleria. Sunday morning we will again have a continental
breakfast at 8 AM, followed by the fourth breakout session
which begins at 9:15 AM. The fifth and final breakout session
begins at 10:30 AM. The conference concludes at 12 noon on
Sunday. We hope to see you there!
Please contact us
between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Time, Monday through Friday,
with any questions about the conference.
We recommend that all conference attendees
stay at the Westin
Galleria Hotel, because all conference activities - the
Friday evening reception, all meals, and all conference
sessions Saturday and Sunday - will take place at the Westin
Galleria. You can make a reservation at our conference reservation page
which is
https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/booking/reservation?id=1202246330&key=19452.
In addition, if you make your reservation via this page you get free in-room Internet access;
otherwise the hotel charges $12.99/day for in-room Internet access.
You don't need to pay upfront, but you do need to provide a credit card in order to reserve a room.
We recommend making your reservation now; you can always cancel later if your plans change.
Sunday afternoon debate
Rebecca Bigler Ph.D. is
Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin .
Professor Bigler is also co-founder and executive director of the
American Council for CoEducational Schooling (ACCES). At the conclusion of the
conference, Sunday afternoon beginning at 1:30 PM, Professor Bigler will debate
Dr. Leonard Sax, founder of the Association and host of this Conference.
Professor Bigler will argue that the single-gender format - including both single-gender classrooms and single-gender schools -
"lacks scientific
support and may exaggerate sexism and gender stereotyping".
Dr. Sax will argue that when teachers have appropriate training,
single-gender classrooms and single-gender
schools can break down gender stereotypes,
boost academic achievement, and broaden educational
horizons for both girls and boys. Attendees at the debate
will have the opportunity to pose questions both to Professor Bigler
and to Dr. Sax.
Comments from attendees at our
previous Conferences:
"One of the best conferences I have ever attended!"
Lisa Robson, Flamborough Centre School, Hamilton, Ontario
"This was a fabulous, insightful and interesting
conference. I am so glad I came. It felt like family. It was
good to network with teachers, counselors and administrators
from all different experiences to bring to the board. It was
also a great representation of schools from all over the
States, as well as from Iceland, Spain, Canada, Mexico, and
Australia."
Denise Blakely, San Luis Obispo, California
"I had a wonderful weekend here. I have learned so much
about single-sex classrooms. I can't wait to get home and try
some of the things I have learned. I didn't realize how
unprepared I was to teach single-sex classes. Thank you so
much for all the information."
Sarah Tomblyn, Buckhannon-Upshur Middle School,
Buckhannon, West Virginia
"This conference reignited my excitement for my
single-gender class. My approach to literature for males will
never be the same."
Joanne Bachman, Hillcrest High, Greenville, South
Carolina
"Each time I attend the conference I gain new strategies
and a more effective means of implementing existing
strategies. The presenters have been fabulous. Thank you for
sharing the knowledge!"
Tisha D. Jones, Diaz Elementary School, Las Vegas, Nevada
"This was my first NASSPE conference. I had a wonderful
time. The environment, food, and staff were all top notch.
There was great diversity in the breakout sessions. Speakers
were very informative."
James W. Blackmon, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools,
Tennessee
"I really enjoyed this conference. I get so much
information and ideas from fellow teachers who are also doing
single-sex education. Fellowshipping with others who are
doing what I am doing, I KNOW that I am doing the right
thing!"
Daryl Jackson, Aberdeen Primary School, Aberdeen, North
Carolina
"The NASSPE conference is always a great opportunity to
network with others on the front lines of gender-specific
classrooms. Learning new strategies and having existing
strategies affirmed has been helpful. It was nice to
collaborate and learn from experts in the field. It really
helps to validate the whole process for me. Thanks!"
Annette Duncan, Cunningham Elementary School, Waterloo,
Iowa
"An outstanding learning opportunity for all educators.
The VARIETY of topics covered provided an excellent
opportunity for all. Keep up the excellent work!"
Doug Trimble, principal, C. G. Stirling Elementary
School, Hamilton, Ontario
"This conference was the best professional development I
have ever experienced - in 30 years of teaching. Thank you
for the careful, insightful preparation given to this day,
and for your evident passion for this work!"
Terry Hume, Robert Turner Elementary School,
Lawrenceburg, Kentucky
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