Resources on/ for Boys

EBSB in the News:

NBC's Class Action Interview with Jason and the Boys

San Francisco Magazine: Innovative Schools

San Francisco Chronicle

The Monthly

21st Century Shop Class, East Bay Mini Maker Faire blog

 

On Boys:

Understanding and Raising Boys

Boys Will be Men
Why Men are the Way they Are
Raising Cain
Speaking of Boys
It’s a Boy
The Minds of Boys
The Men and the Boy

The Way of Boys

Boys Project

On Equity Pedagogy:

Equity Pedagogy:An Essential Component of

MultiCultural Education,

Cherry A. McGee Banks & James A. Banks

 

On Boys' Education:

New York Times Article on Boys in Schools (January 2013)

Center on Educational Policy Research Published 3.17.2010
"The Boys Are Falling Behind"

Truth About Boys and Girls
Single Gender Education Gains Ground as Boys Lag
Boys and School
Girls Lead Boys in Reading, Writing

Struggling School-Age Boys

Weapons of Mass Instruction

A Website for Resources on Boy Reading: GuysRead

 

On Design and Building:

          Books/ Articles

Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew Crawford
Out of Our Minds, Sir Ken Robinson

A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink

The Third Teacher, How Design Can Transform Teaching and Learning

Taking Design to School

Case for Hands-on Learning

Forbes article on spatial reasoning in schools

Innovation, Education, and the Maker Movement

New York Times article on craftsmanship and making

How Does the Act of Making Shape the Brain?

               Videos

Changing Paradigms, Sir Ken Robinson TED talk

Schools Killing Creativity, Sir Ken Robinson TED talk

We Are Makers, Dale Dougherty TED talk

Teaching Design for Change, Emily Pilloton TED talk

Human Centered Design, David Kelley TED talk

IDEO Shopping Cart Design Challenge Nightline video

Studio Schools, Jeff Mulgan TED talk

     Cool Programs/ Schools

d.school Design Thinking Bootleg Bootcamp

East Bay Maker Faire

Makerspace,a space for young makers and educators

Project Make at Analy H.S., Sebastopol (article)

MIT InvenTeams, approach to STEM (notice similarities to EBSB?)

Henry Ford Learning Institute (design thinking in action)

Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum K-12 design program

Sparktruck