Your game plan for getting boys on the path to higher achievement As a school leader, Kelley King has walked the talk: she successfully led her own staff to close the achievement gap between boys and girls in reading and writing in just one year. In this book, readers get King's step-by-step, research-based leadership plan for jump-starting boys' achievement. King shares: Critical insight into the brain-based differences between boys and girls First-hand leadership and classroom experiences to provide educators with a blueprint for creating schools where boys (and girls!) thrive Ready-to-use…mehr
Your game plan for getting boys on the path to higher achievement As a school leader, Kelley King has walked the talk: she successfully led her own staff to close the achievement gap between boys and girls in reading and writing in just one year. In this book, readers get King's step-by-step, research-based leadership plan for jump-starting boys' achievement. King shares: Critical insight into the brain-based differences between boys and girls First-hand leadership and classroom experiences to provide educators with a blueprint for creating schools where boys (and girls!) thrive Ready-to-use activities and resources for leading a successful gap-closing initiative
Kelley King is a twenty-five year veteran educator, international speaker, author, and mother. Kelley is currently the Associate Director and a Master Trainer at the Gurian Institute. She travels widely to deliver keynotes, teacher workshops, and consultations to educators and parents. She also develops and facilitates cutting-edge training curricula for online teacher education. Previously, Kelley has worked in various roles within elementary, middle, and high school levels, including positions in regular education, special education, and gifted and talented programs. Kelley has served schools with diverse racial, linguistic, and socioeconomic student populations as well as schools ranging from rural, one-room schoolhouses to large suburban schools. As a school administrator, Kelley led her staff to close the gender gap in reading and writing within one year, gaining national media attention. Her work has been featured on The Today Show, National Public Radio, National Health Journal, Newsweek magazine, and Educational Leadership. She has co-authored (with Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens) two previous books in the education field: Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls: Elementary Level and Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls: Secondary Level. Kelley¿s EdWeek Chat: Strategies for Addressing School Gender Gaps Watch Kelley¿s Today Show Segment
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Foreword by Michael Gurian Preface Acknowledgments About the Author 1. Making the Call: Is There Really a Boy Crisis? Final Buzzer 2. Getting Your Head in the Game: "Need-to-Knows" about the Male Brain Laying the Groundwork Why Do These Sex Differences Exist? Our Beginnings Does That Mean That Our Abilities Aare Fixed? The Male Brain 101 Is There Such a Thing as an "Extreme Male Brain"? The Male Adolescent Brain It s Nature AND Nuture The Final Buzzer 3. Chalk Talk: A Game Plan for Moving Your Team down the Field School Climate and Culture - What s the Difference? Activities for Your Professional Learning Communities Got Data? Getting Teacher Buy-In SMART Goals Developing an Action Plan School Improvement and Teacher Growth Developing a Yearlong Professional Development Plan The Final Buzzer 4. Leveling the Playing Field: School Policies and Procedures That Don t Squeeze Boys out Expectations and the Stereotype Threat Discipline Time, Place, and Manner Grades and Homework Banning Aggression Themes The Final Buzzer 5. Touching Base: Relationship-Building to Guide Boys on Their Journey The Social-Emotional Lives of Boys Forging Positive Relationships With Boys Male Mentoring and Role Models The Final Buzzer 6. The Ground Game: Setting up Classrooms That Help Boys Succeed Physical Arrangement of the Classroom Classroom Procedures The Final Buzzer 7. Hitting It out of the Park: Game-Winning Instructional Strategies for Boys (and Girls!) Lecture Strategies Movement Strategies Student Interests Strategies Real-World Learning Strategies Student Choice Strategies Visual-Spatial Strategies Technology Strategies Competition Strategies Single-Gender Grouping Strategies Music Strategies Test Preparation Strategies Test Administration Strategies The Final Buzzer Afterword Sticky Teaching Graphic References Index
Foreword by Michael Gurian Preface Acknowledgments About the Author 1. Making the Call: Is There Really a Boy Crisis? Final Buzzer 2. Getting Your Head in the Game: "Need-to-Knows" about the Male Brain Laying the Groundwork Why Do These Sex Differences Exist? Our Beginnings Does That Mean That Our Abilities Aare Fixed? The Male Brain 101 Is There Such a Thing as an "Extreme Male Brain"? The Male Adolescent Brain It s Nature AND Nuture The Final Buzzer 3. Chalk Talk: A Game Plan for Moving Your Team down the Field School Climate and Culture - What s the Difference? Activities for Your Professional Learning Communities Got Data? Getting Teacher Buy-In SMART Goals Developing an Action Plan School Improvement and Teacher Growth Developing a Yearlong Professional Development Plan The Final Buzzer 4. Leveling the Playing Field: School Policies and Procedures That Don t Squeeze Boys out Expectations and the Stereotype Threat Discipline Time, Place, and Manner Grades and Homework Banning Aggression Themes The Final Buzzer 5. Touching Base: Relationship-Building to Guide Boys on Their Journey The Social-Emotional Lives of Boys Forging Positive Relationships With Boys Male Mentoring and Role Models The Final Buzzer 6. The Ground Game: Setting up Classrooms That Help Boys Succeed Physical Arrangement of the Classroom Classroom Procedures The Final Buzzer 7. Hitting It out of the Park: Game-Winning Instructional Strategies for Boys (and Girls!) Lecture Strategies Movement Strategies Student Interests Strategies Real-World Learning Strategies Student Choice Strategies Visual-Spatial Strategies Technology Strategies Competition Strategies Single-Gender Grouping Strategies Music Strategies Test Preparation Strategies Test Administration Strategies The Final Buzzer Afterword Sticky Teaching Graphic References Index
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