If you would like further information of the conference, call Jean Cole
at (573)751-2661 or email at jcole@mail.dese.state.mo.us
> I have arranged to have
> Jackson Katz present on Sunday morning at the conference. I saw him
> present
> at the Wellesley College Gender Equity Conference in January. He
> works with
> boys and men around anti-violence prevention...a real necessity made
> all the
> more timely after the recent tragedies in schools (I heard there was
> another
> shooting outside a school in Florida this morning). I have included
> his bio
> and workshop description below. I will be meeting with him in Boston
> next
> week. If any of you have questions, please let me know. The
> demographics at
> the Wellesley were similar to those at NCSEE conferences and he was
> extremely
> well received. I am very pleased he has agreed to present. What I
> like about
> this workshop is that he goes beyond just focusing on the issues and
> presents
> concrete strategies for working with student and educators around the
> connected issues of sexism and violence.
>
> Hope all is well and I am looking forward to seeing all of you in
> Kansas City.
>
> Craig
>
> Workshop Description: "More Than A Few Good Men: Strategies for
> Inspiring
> Boys and Young Men To Be Allies in Anti-Sexist Education"
>
> This workshop will focus on six key strategies for inspiring boys and
> young
> men to be allies with girls and women in gender violence prevention
> education.
> Many of the ideas to be shared with participants were developed and
> refined
> during the course of hundreds of workshops and classes conducted
> across the
> United States over the past decade with boys' and men's athletic
> teams,
> college fraternities, groups of enlisted men and officers in the
> United States
> Marine Corps and Army, and mixed-gender workshops and classes in
> middle
> schools, high schools, and colleges. The six strategies discussed
> will be:
> Introducing violence against women as a men's issue; framing gender
> violence
> prevention as a leadership issue for boys and men; personalizing
> gender
> violence issues through "remedial empathy" exercises; focusing on the
> role of
> bystanders and discussing concrete options for intervention; making
> the
> connection between homophobia and men's reluctance to challenge
> sexism; and
> preempting predictable criticisms and objections from boys and men.
>
> Biographical Sketch
> Jackson Katz is the founder and director of MVP Strategies, an
> organization
> that provides gender violence prevention training and materials to the
> US
> military services, colleges, high schools, law enforcement agencies,
> community
> organizations, and small and large corporations. Katz, a high school
> all-star
> football player, went on to became the first man at the University of
> Massachusetts-Amherst to earn a minor in women's studies. He holds a
> masters
> degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where his
> research
> concentration was the social construction of masculinities through
> sports and
> media. In 1988 he founded "Real Men," a Boston-based group of
> educators and
> activists committed to working against sexism and men's violence
> toward women.
> In 1993 he co-created the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Program
> at
> Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society.
> The
> multiracial, mixed gender MVP Program is the first large-scale attempt
> to
> enlist high school, collegiate and professional athletes in the fight
> against
> all forms of men's violence against women. He is currently directing
> the
> design and worldwide implementation of MVP-Marine Corps, the first
> systemwide
> gender violence prevention program in the history of the United States
> Marine
> Corps. He has published several articles on topics including gender
> and
> sexual politics, feminism, white masculinity, media, sports, and
> violence. He
> also is producing an educational video entitled "My Gun's Bigger Than
> Yours:
> Images of Manhood and Violence in the Media." Since 1990, he has
> lectured at
> more than 325 colleges, prep schools, high schools, middle schools,
> professional conferences, and military installations in 39 states.
>
>
>DLees@inspire.ospi.wednet.edu