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Dr. Leonard Sax chairs NASSPE's governing
board. At the March 2008 meeting of NASSPE's Advisory Board, we welcomed three members of the Stetson University
Department of Teacher Education as new members of the Advisory Board. Stetson University certainly leads the nation as far as studying, in a systematic way,
best practices for the single-sex classroom. No other university has more than one tenured faculty member devoting attention to this question; Stetson has three
tenured faculty for whom this question is a principal focus of their research. Those three faculty are, in alphabetical order:
Professor Elizabeth 'Bette' Heins
Professor Kathy Piechura-Couture
Professor Mercedes Tichenor
At our March 2008 Advisory Board meeting, an informal agreement was reached between NASSPE and Stetson to work collaboratively both on researching
best practice for single-gender classrooms, and on offering professional development for teachers: see for example the
June 2008 two-day workshop on best practices for single-gender classrooms.
The other members of NASSPE's Advisory Board include, in alphabetical order:
Brad Adams, executive director of the International
Boys' Schools Coalition
David Chadwell was appointed in the summer of 2007 to be the first
Director of Single-Gender Initiatives for the state of South Carolina. He was previously lead teacher of the Richland TWO Academies
at Dent Middle School in Columbia, South Carolina (Richland Two School District), for three very successful years. Mr. Chadwell
was also the host of our Southeast Conference in October 2006; he was a featured speaker
at our 2007 international conference, and will be a featured speaker
at our 2008 international conference in Memphis, Tennessee.
Professor Margaret Ferrara, of the University of Nevada Reno. At the Advisory Board meeting
in March 2008, Professor Ferrara was selected to be the first editor of the scholarly journal which will be sponsored jointly
by Stetson and NASSPE, entitled Advances in Gender and Education. You may contact Professor Ferrara directly with
queries about the journal: her e-mail address is "ferrara AT singlesexschools.org" (replace "AT" with "@").
Abigail Norfleet James is Adjunct Professor of Education at the University of Virginia, Northern Virginia Center.
Professor James is the author of Teaching the Male Brain, published in 2007.
She was also a featured speaker at our 2007 international conference and will be
a featured speaker at our 2008 international conference in Memphis.
More information is available at Professor James' web site.
Jennifer Madigan, associate
professor, San
Jose State University, San Jose, California.
Benjamin Wright, formerly principal
of the Thurgood
Marshall Elementary School in Seattle, Washington; for three years Regional
Supervisor of Victory Schools in Philadelphia; and appointed in the summer of 2007
to be Chief Administrative Officer for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. Mr. Wright also
hosted our NASSPE Northeast conference in October 2006, and he will be a featured speaker at our 2008 international conference in Memphis.
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