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The value of the male schoolteacher
PATRICK Cunningham taught my youngest son a decade ago in first and second grade at the Cambridgeport School in Cambridge. Now 59, he still teaches the same grades at the same school, one of the relatively few men in the nation working with children so young. In 27 years of preschool and early elementary teaching, […]
Read MoreA successful summer program that recruits young men
I wanted to share some good news about recruiting men to our field. This year we got 131 young men who put working in Preschool as their first or second choice for the Mayor’s Summer Youth Work Program. We were able to place 27 of them in Cambridge preschool. The young men are invited to come to […]
Read MoreWhat is “male” culture?
How do we define culture and specifically what is a “male” culture – what are the qualities of a classroom and activities that are “male?” Is there a “female” culture? Isn’t the idea of “male” and “female” changing all the time? Here is one man’s response: At our agency, Connections For Children, philosophical dialogues break […]
Read MoreProgram helps get men into teaching
After two years with an all-male classroom, sixth-grade teacher Eric Lewis says he thinks he’s starting to see where his work makes a difference. As one of 27 black men recruited to teach in Aiken County for the 2005-06 school year, according to state Education Department data, the North Augusta Middle School teacher brought something […]
Read MoreA new book – Men on a Mission: Valuing Youth Work in Our Communities
I’m on the MenTeach listserve and thought I would share a recent publication of mine that may be of interest to you and your colleagues. I cited your 2002 book in my own work. As the description indicates at the link below, I interviewed and observed men in a wide range of youth work settings, […]
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