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Editorial: A Creative Student Report About Male Teachers
One of the great things about having this website is meeting all the interesting men and women throughout the world. And often, I hear from students who are doing a paper, presentation or report for a university class. Recently, one student, Peter O’Reilly at Dominican University of California, posted a question in the MenTeach Forum and also ordered […]
Read MoreWorking 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 MoreIf a woman can drive a tank in Baghdad, why can’t a man change a diaper in Boston?
I am an Early Care and Education professional currently serving as the Program Coordinator at the Ipswich Birth To Three Family Center, one of the 42 sites of the Massachusetts Family Network (MFN). I am also a former Schott Foundation Fellow (2006). The CCDF Plan for 2008-2009 is a rich document that makes clear the […]
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 […]
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