NASSPE
Southeast Regional Conference
For more information
please contact
Curt R. Green and Linda Lewis, Principals
TMSF Redesign Schools –
University Assisted
Curt R. Green, Principal
Personalizing a Male Specific Learning Environment
Reforming the School, while
Transforming the Culture: Providing a Personalized Male Specific Learning Environment. In
the age of accountability, extra measures are needed for students to achieve at
higher levels. Such components include: extra help programs, summer
academies/institutes to assist students transitioning from one level of school
to the next and meaningful advisement.
Sara D Wilson, M.Ed.
Education Specialist,
Not Better nor Worse, but Different
Have you ever wondered what’s
going on inside the head of a teenage boy or girl? Why do they do the things they do? This workshop discusses the latest research
in how the male and female brain develops and how it affects the way we do
things and how we learn. Topics include
differences in spatial skills, language and communication, and hormones. Join us as we look at innovative ways in
teaching our boys and girls.
Sandra Allison,
Space Cadets in Geometry
Participants
will receive lessons that introduce the concepts of “space” in geometry to 8th
grade boys. Grouped in discovery teams of space cadets, geometry students
investigate the basic properties of lines, planes, and angles. Engaging,
movement activities will be presented in technology-based lessons.
Elizabeth Heins, Mercedes Tichenor, Kathy Piechura --
University Professors
Single-Gender versus Mixed-Gender Classrooms:
What Have We Learned After Two Years?
Presenters will discuss
information about professional development workshops held for teachers in
single-gender classrooms and how university faculty and teacher candidates work
with these classes. Results of interviews
with teachers and students, as well as results from standardized test data
collected after two years of implementation will be shared. Suggestions for implementing similar programs
will also be presented.
JoAnne Rodkey - Principal; Joan Plavchan, Ida Parkman, Debbie
Roberts, Jim Roberts - Teachers
Single-Gender Classrooms in the Elementary
School: Insights and Strategies from
Teachers
This presentation will provide an
overview of and rationale for implementing single-gender classrooms at the
elementary school level. Teachers who
have implemented single-gender classes will provide insight on what they have
learned and how this information can be utilized as strategies and methods for
working with boys and girls generally.
Presenters will also share
information about professional
development workshops held for teachers working in single-gender classrooms.
Rosemary Agnew-White, Doctoral Student
Newport-Mesa Unified
The Effects of Single-gender Education on the
Affective, Academic, and Social behavioral
Development of Inner-city, Adolescent, African American Males: A Recent Study to Consider.
This
session will cover the results of a research project, which reflects the
title. Participants will be able to
review data collected and participate in a roundtable discussion concerning the
results, implication, application, and use of that data in a public school
learning environments.
Abigail Norfleet James, Consultant to Schools
The Advantage of Gendered Education for the High Risk
Population
Ethnic and racial differences
among students create specific difficulties for educators trying to serve the
high risk population. This presentation
will examine reports of single sex programs providing educational opportunities
targeted for students of color. The
success of these programs is based on meeting the differential developmental
levels and cognitive gender needs of the participants thereby increasing
engagement in the learning process.
Teaching the Male Brain
A brief overview of the cognitive
gender differences between boys and girls will lead into a discussion of
specific strategies which work with boys in both the single sex and coed classroom. The emphasis of this session will be on
giving the teacher the tools to interpret how s/he structures the learning
climate for each discipline and each level of students highlighting approaches
for elementary and middle schools.
Leonard Sax, MD, PhD, Executive Director, NASSPE
Classroom Management for Single-Sex Classrooms
In an all-boys classroom, the boy
who is most disruptive may raise his status in the eyes of other boys. Conversely, the boy who asks the teacher for
help may lower his status in the eyes of the other boys. When single-sex programs fail, the most
common reason for failure has to do with classroom management of all-boys
classrooms. Teachers who understand how
to manage a boys’ classroom will be rewarded with a dramatic drop in discipline
referrals and a renewed focus on learning.
Teachers who don’t understand these nuts and bolts may waste classroom
time playing the game we call “whack-a-mole”:
trying to get one boy to behave and stop disrupting the class – while
another boy is becoming disruptive.
In this session, we will focus on
practical, nuts-and-bolts strategies for managing all-boys and all-girls
classrooms, beginning on day one, with attention to best practices for
prevention of bullying, and effective deployment of team strategies.
Lee Mansell, Principal; Karen Frederick, Michelle Gay,
William Bender, Teachers
4th and 5th Grade Single Gender Pilot
Program
We have had a short CD prepared about our program and the
results of the first year of our pilot. It shows the students and includes
interviews with students and teachers. The CD was shown to 3rd graders who will
come to us next year. 82% of those students have signed up for single gender
classes next year. Three teachers who
have just completed the second year of teaching single gender classes will
present teaching strategies that worked best with each gender.
Linda Lewis, Principal
Transforming Education at CPCA: A Focus on Achievement
An interactive presentation
designed to present an overview of transforming a comprehensive public high
school to a single sex school.
Strategies for increasing student achievement in a single sex class.
Cynthia
Bullard
Kernodle Middle School/Guilford
County Schools
Girls
in Science Clubs
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