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MenTeach E-News – October 2020
MenTeach E-News October 2020 1) Men in Female-Dominated Professions Do More Housework 2) Justice For All: Lack of Black Male Educators in Florida Area Schools 3) Legislation Introduced Addressing Teacher Diversity in NJ Schools 4) Atlanta Man Becomes One of Georgia’s First Black Male Teachers of the Year 5) Editorial: Getting back to the first […]
Read MoreMen in Female-Dominated Professions Do More Housework
If you want a husband who shares housework more equitably, marry a nurse, a teacher or hair stylist–or someone who’s in a female-focused career. Men in predominantly female jobs will perform 25 percent more household chores than a partner who works in a male-dominated profession like an electrician or engineer, a study (PDF) of heterosexual couples from […]
Read MoreBlack Male Educators In St. Louis Have A Formula For Boosting Their Numbers
Darryl Diggs Jr. only had two African American male educators in his school years. He met the first one, a physical education teacher, in grade school — and then another, a physiology teacher, in high school. At college, he only had one black male professor. Today, Diggs, 37, finds himself in a similar position. An […]
Read More‘Brother Apple’ sows seeds of approval in China
Exercise videos boost acceptance of male teachers at kindergartens Kindergarten teacher “Brother Apple” set out with the intention of keeping youngsters fit during the COVID-19 epidemic, but quickly became an online icon. Xia Haoyang, who teaches at a kindergarten in Qingdao, Shandong province, kept the nickname his students had given him when he started uploading […]
Read MoreBlack Male Teacher Creates Online Hustle University To Support Parents Struggling With Crisis Fatigue
Hotep left his kindergarten classroom to start Hustle University so he could help low-performing schools across the United States. For this tumultuous school year, he is revealing his latest solution: Hustle U Homeschool; an online portal providing social and emotional educational resources to families struggling with the “new normal”. Hotep created his online homeschool after […]
Read MoreMale Teachers Weigh in on Teaching During Coronavirus Pandemic in California
When a global pandemic interrupted the school year in March, teachers had to trade in their classrooms for Zoom calls and teach students from behind a screen with little time to prepare. Now after six months – several schools have opened up in Orange County through waivers and school districts might soon be given the […]
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