Re: HIT: Gender Bias/ School Girls part1

[Lauren Deane <oaklane@POND.COM>]

The newest AAUW material is about success stories, copiing strategies
for
middle school girls.  I have to talk about it and host a panel fo the
local board of ed. on Feb. 22.  There is a video as well, put out by
AAUW,
called GIRLS IN THE MIDDLE:  working to succeed in school.

Karen Perry
A.J. Griffin Middle School              910-819-2870
East Washington Drive
High Point, NC  27260                   perryk@hamlet.uncg.edu


contact your local branch of
American Association of University Women. They should be able to give
you
lots of information. They have a web site, http://www.aauw.org  There
is an
article in the Feb. issue of Technology connection about girls and
technology
that also might be of interest to you. Hope this helps.
Carol Ebel
Library Media Specialist (And AAUW member!)
Parkside School
Fond du Lac, WI

 re: fighting gender
bias  You might try to get in touch with our Illinois magnet high
school for
the sciences and math (Illinois Math and Science Academy or IMSA) which
has
been pioneering calculus for girls only and other innovative classes.
Part
of the IMSA mandate is to share their findings, so they're always
friendly
and helpful to inquirers and visitors.  Hope this will help a little.
Ruth
Jacobsen


Lauren--I am a full-time elementary media specialist at 3 K-5 schools.
In
my free time (ha) I am working on an MLS in library and information
management.  Last summer in one of my classes I had to do an annotated
bibliography on the subject"brain and gender."  I ran across a lot of
good
books and even some videos which might be useful to you.  You didn't
mention a date for your inservice so get in touch with me (let me know
any
particular angles you are interested in.)  I'll be glad to help if I
can.
I may also post this to LM_NET.  In the class I'm taking now we're
supposed
to contribute to the listserve.
 Linda Fredricks

Steve and/or Linda Fredricks
steve@ott.net

From:        Charlotte Patton, CPatton@darlington.rome.ga.us
To:          'oaklane@POND.COM', oaklane@POND.COM

Is Reviving Ophelia  by Mary Pipher,Ph.D.  on your list of books to
read?  Seventeen magazine , Jan. 1995 had an article titled Girls with
ADD. There are many references now in ADD materials showing a difference
in the way boys and girls are affected.  Girls usually do not  have the
hyperactive component  as often.  Good luck.  If you cannot find the
Seventeen article  I will be happy to fax it to you.

From:        Marcia Millere, stonycrk@rose.net
To:          oaklane@POND.COM

Lauren,
Try contacting the local branch of American Association of University
Women.  Their big cause is education for girls and women and eradicating
gender bias in schools.  They did a presentation at my school: showed a
video, gave talk, distributed literature.  Warning:  lots of talk about
gender bias in schools tends to put teachers on the defensive!  The way
they package the idea could step on some toes, but I think the info is
good.

Marcia Millere
 1006 South Broad Street
Thomasville, GA
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Lauren Deane
Media Specialist
Oak Lane Day School
Pennsylvania

oaklane@pond.com

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