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‍March 15-17, 2012
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‍Breakout Sessions: Educating Boys and Educating Girls
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 * Time to work in groups and create lessons.....**

Math-History-English Pick an area of study in history -- choose two groups of people -- (all girls) Write a paper about the conflict -- using historical elements Design a survey to measure how much people know about their knowledge of the area, people....age, education level...run stats and analyze Presentation of findings Groups of 2 or 4 Rubric (scoring guide) Plans with "milestones" and choice with more open-ended
 * Lesson #1**

"Reality project" from different disciplines -- proves that there is no isolation

Math/Social Studies -- All female -- Elementary familiarity grids - describe grids use word in vocabulary break into partners to look at a color-coordinated grid with associations (small space in the classroom) --placing directions --interactions with each other 4-5 step scavenger hunts
 * Lesson #2**

Thinking of a mneumonic for south-north and longitude as well as east-west and latitude Explain why the mneumonic is helpful

Practical use: Google Earth -- tracking

Interdisciplinary History All boys
 * Lesson #3**

"Night" by Elie Wiesel [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_(book]) []

Self evaluation about cultures Research and discuss how education was handled in this time period -- Germany, etc. Definitions of "human"

Cards of color red, brown, yellow On other side of card, write own definition of racism plus anything that has been said or heard about the color chosen Share definitions - writing key words on board Ideas and topics about Germany at the time

Spatial -- immensity of Auschwitz (Google Earth)

Unpacking and discussing themes - degree of honesty in single sex classroom -- safe to share

Elementary boys Math Introducing decimals (first day) Print a copy of flat base 10 blocks Provide each student a copy Direct them to make a pizza (square pizza, color, yet seeing the divisions, with toppings) Discuss how many slices are in each pizza (10 slices) Questions: How many 10's? How many bites? Associate each slice by 10's and 100's Dictate decimals -- using overhead/smart board/white board Show with pizza .. 1/10 more, etc.
 * Lesson #4**

Don't like pizza? Make it your favorite pie...

HS History with Math All girls Important themes of global history --urbanization --rise and decline of urban centers
 * Lesson #5**

Compare a modern map of Mesopotamia and a current map of the now-named country Work in pairs to identify what factors over time that define an urban center ...natural lines drawn over history ...cultural lines drawn over history How does Industrialism...Imperialism affect? Conflict? Religion? Explore ideas in a historical perspective

Use maps to assist with learning to read directions -- link into history and people (first) then into conflict

Middle School Math (one week) Supplemental: Building Bridges with toothpicks and glue 3-D project without much guidance ...what builds a stronger bridge ...working in groups/pairs ...testing the bridges ...geometric elements ...discussing bridges (show examples) ...discussing architecture
 * Lesson #6**

Administrative group Character building -- Education Social - emotional learning Creating a robust environment -- channel emotions properly when challenged
 * Lesson #7**

Personal conversations with uncomfortable situations ...initial confrontation with denial ...take a time out ...meet again after student has a chance to think about personal responsibility

Promote a deeper manner of thinking of personal responsibility - with methods and strategies

--Should not use biological methods to "get out" off any responsibility -- provide a safe place for girls to manage their reactions/emotions

Administrators/Lower School Architecture -- Taj Mahal Beginning a lesson with a good story to "draw students in" 1. Build 2. Graph paper to describe symetry 3. Tesselation or design
 * Lesson #8**

Church architecture -- walking tour of school campus, church campuses --noticing a variety of items

Why certain colors, icons......are used in architecture

Allow children latitude in what they are doing -- then share -- diversity and variety

Mixture of elementary school -- All girls Creative writing (1st grade, yet adaptable) Demonstrate as a group about ideas for topics Writing simple sentences that are turned into paragraphs
 * Lesson #9**

Start with song Develop three objects (farm animals) and create three sentences Write sentences on board without capitalization/punctuation