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How Male Teachers Can Empower Female Students
Glass ceilings are still aplenty in the workplace in 2020 USA. Some speculate that some young women are so affected by a systemic gender bias that favors men in school settings that they subconsciously play into it when they get to the adult workplace. Further, many homes are also very patriarchal, and that may be […]
Read MoreCompton Male Teachers of Color Network (CMToCN) May Virtual Summit
Compton Male Teachers of Color Network (CMToCN) May Virtual Summit. This will be our 2nd annual end-of-year meeting to share the excellent progress of our district-wide project. The CMToCN is a unique approach to building a profesional learning community that provides social emotional support and profesional development to male teachers and administrators of color in […]
Read MoreChinese male teachers face kindergarten conundrum
When Yu Zehong started teaching at a kindergarten in Beijing in 2018, some parents asked to transfer their children to other classes. The parents did not have a good impression of male teachers. Some were worried because of news reports about male staff members sexually assaulting children, while others thought a man would be too […]
Read MoreTODAY Show surprises Georgia’s first black male Pre-K Teacher of the Year with huge donation
He was named Georgia’s Pre-K Teacher of the Year last fall and was recognized as the first black man to get this honor. Johnathon Hines, a pre-K instructor at Barack Obama Elementary School in Atlanta, got another surprise on the TODAY Show on Monday. This week TODAY is kicking off a special series called TODAY Loves Teachers, […]
Read MoreKenya: Ensure gender balance in teacher training colleges to attain equity
In the past 10 years, there has been a downward trend in enrolment of male candidates to teacher training colleges at the primary school level. I’ve heard from a number of principals that, in some colleges, female students comprise two-thirds to three-quarters of the total number. Should the trend continue, we will have boys in […]
Read More‘From Oprah to Ellen’: Call Me MISTER celebrates 20 years of fostering Black male teachers
In April 2001, former Clemson University and NFL football player Jeff Davis sat on a soundstage in Chicago across from talk show host Oprah Winfrey. Davis was on Winfrey’s widely popular daytime talk show to receive the “Use Your LIfe” award for his involvement in the Call Me Mister program, an initiative aimed at increasing […]
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