2025 Plenary Talk | 59:19 | All Grade Levels, Teacher & Classroom, General Classroom, Virtue, Character, Discipline
Summary
On average, boys lag behind their sisters in every content area K through 12—not because girls are doing so much better, researchers find, but because boys are doing worse. Over the past 24 years, I have visited more than 500 schools. In this presentation, I provide an overview of gender-aware instructional strategies to boost boys’ motivation and achievement so that the same boy who loves football and video games will also love Jane Eyre and Emily Dickinson. You can make your school more boy-friendly without making it unfriendly to girls!
Speaker
Dr. Leonard Sax, MD PhD, attended public schools in Shaker Heights, Ohio, from kindergarten through grade 12. He enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge Massachusetts in the fall of 1977; he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from MIT in January 1980, at the age of 19. He then went to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned both a PhD in psychology and an MD. He did a three-year residency in family medicine in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dr. Sax has been continuously certified by the American Board of Family Medicine since 1989.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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