Announcement

From: edequity@phoenix.edc.org
Date: Mon Apr 24 2000 - 16:20:14 EDT


A special pre-conference session before NCSEE 2000
Still Failing at Fairness? Beyond Boys vs. Girls
with David Sadker and Phyllis Lerner

July 15, 2000 Saturday
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Sheraton Denver West
Lakewood, Colorado

What: A unique workshop to detect and eliminate classroom bias through

collegial coaching.

When: Saturday, July 15, 2000 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Where: Sheraton Denver West
    360 Union Blvd.
    Lakewood, CO 80228
    (303) 987-2000

Cost: $75.00 per person
        $65.00 per person with a team of 4 or more
    (breakfast and snacks included; lunch on your own)

Participants will increase both the effectiveness and equity of their
classroom teaching. The workshop is based on 20 years of research
undertaken
in classrooms from grade school through graduate school by two of the
nation's most well known and respected authors and teacher educators, the
late Myra Sadker and David Sadker. At the workshop's conclusion, interested

attendees are invited to meet with David Sadker and Phyllis Lerner to
examine
their individual or team research, writing or instructional plans.

Training agenda:

· Introductions/ Brief Historical Overview of Gender Bias in Schools
· Professional Communications: The Gender Communications Gap (Quiz)
· Analysis and Assessment of "Model" Teacher on Videotape
· Role Play: Gender Bias in the Classroom
· Review of the Research: Dateline: NBC with Jane Pauley and the Sadkers
· Cost of Gender Bias for Females and Males
· Objective Data Gathering Techniques
· Collegial Coaching Practice
· Strategies for Change
· Optional Individual/Team Meetings with David Sadker and Phyllis Lerner

Registration Form

Name: _____________________________

Address: ___________________________

                ____________________________

Phone: Day (______) _________________

       Evening (______) _________________

FAX: _______________________________

E-mail: _____________________________

# of registrations: _____________________

Total enclosed amount: $----_______________

A minimum of twenty participants, by July 1, 2000 is required in order to
guarantee this program.

Credit ($52. per credit hour) is available through Colorado State
University
when workshop participants also attend the NCSEE Conference. For further
credit information contact Kathleen Rigsby: (303) 623-3189.

Please fill out the registration portion of this form (copies are
acceptable)
by July 1, 2000 and mail to Professors David Sadker & Phyllis Lerner at
American University, School of Education 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20016 or fax (301) 229-5823. Checks are payable to David
Sadker & Phyllis Lerner. A confirmation will be sent out once your
registration is received.
Questions regarding this training? E-mail < DSadker@american.edu >
< PLearner@aol.com > or call (202) 885-3728.



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