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Working Forum 2007 – Men in Early Care and Education (MECE)
We have come such a long way in the two years since the Men in the Lives of Young Children session generated “a great deal of interest” among delegates to the 2005 World Forum Montreal. When an early attempt to assemble a WF MECE in 2006 fell through, representatives of the World Forum Foundation, MenTeach.org, […]
Read MoreTeacher of Year educates as he entertains his class
To his students, Michael B. Flynn is a one-man carnival who uses funny voices and camcorders to bring life to spelling and subtraction. To his peers, he is a blazing young teacher with a zeal for reforming the way educators teach math. These two sides, colleagues say, propelled the 32-year-old teacher at Norris Elementary School […]
Read MoreIt’s About Channeling the Right Role Models
In his new office on the second floor of Zankel Hall, the people who have influenced Jon Drescher are present in talismanic form. The name plate from his father’s office door. A pair of tap dancing shoes that belonged to the entertainer Savion Glover, who was a student of Drescher’s when he was principal of […]
Read MoreCall Me Mister: South Carolina Program Trains Black Men to Become Schoolteachers and Role Models
Now seven years old, the Call Me Mister program has placed 20 Black male teachers in South Carolina schools. So how are they doing? About six years ago, Mark Joseph found something he had been seeking for some time: a sense of purpose. A native of Greenville, S.C., Joseph had been a standout football and basketball player […]
Read MoreMale Presence in Teaching Continues to Decline
Vince Anania is one of a kind. Sadly. The effervescent veteran teacher at St. Charles School in Thorold is the only male Junior Kindergarten teacher in the entire Niagara Catholic DSB. Anania, 44, doesn’t really understand the novelty. Ask him and he’ll tell you he’s in the greatest career imaginable. He’s literally buoyant with the […]
Read MoreMy Favorite Teacher
Many great words have been written on behalf of teachers. I consider myself lucky to have had a least a dozen great teachers, each with their own personalitites, but one common bond, enthusiasm. That enthusiasm was infectious, whatever the subject. Grades 1-8 were spent in Catholic School. Unlike all the bad books out about a […]
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