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Episode 115: Time to Take a Look at Your Dress Code

…be allowed to enforce the dress code. Adults should not touch students or their clothing to correct dress code violations, and should not require students to undress in public spaces. Another resource I’m including is the revised dress code for Evanston Township High School, the school I talked about with Dr. Campbell. It’s an excellent model of a revised, inclusive dress code: specific enough to avoid loose interpretation but broad enough to allow for a lot of student choice. The document lists freedoms along with restrictions, and specifies nondiscrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender expression, and sexual…

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Time to Take a Look at Your Dress Code

…the dress code to participate in bias and anti-harassment training at least once a year. School police should not be allowed to enforce the dress code. Adults should not touch students or their clothing to correct dress code violations, and should not require students to undress in public spaces. Loc’d Out: How Thoughtless Dress Codes Can Harm Students From Day One Coshandra Dillard, Teaching Tolerance How Dress Codes Criminalize Males and Sexualize Females of Color Alyssa Pavlakis & Rachel Roegman, Phi Delta Kappan Guidelines for Improved Policies and Practices Student Dress Code Evanston Township High School, Evanston, IL An excellent…

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Episode 47: Black Girls and School: We Can Do Better

…idea that they should not, that they might interpret it that they should not respond to that in a punitive way. Just talk a little about your feelings about handling dress codes for girls. MORRIS: I think in many places the enforcement of dress code policies is sexist, and really only about enforcing respectability politics. I say that having had lengthy conversations both with educators and with girls. Black girls in particular, that’s the focus of this book, are triggered by the differential enforcement of dress code policies in a particular way in which these policies have negatively impacted them,…

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Episode 190 Transcript

…time. There was vulnerability from top down about how hard everything is and to just frankly do our best.” 2. Flexibility with Policies and Curriculum Administrators who retained the most teachers were willing to adjust expectations in light of the pandemic, rather than obsessing over learning loss or insisting on “business as usual.” These loosened expectations included curriculum, scheduling, planning, observations, dress codes, and attendance. Rather than tell teachers to just “figure it out,” these administrators were willing to experiment until they found solutions that made the most sense.  “There was a lot of flexibility and less pressure around what…

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Why So Many Teachers Are Leaving, and Why Others Stay

…planning, observations, dress codes, and attendance. Rather than tell teachers to just “figure it out,” these administrators were willing to experiment until they found solutions that made the most sense.  “There was a lot of flexibility and less pressure around what curriculum must be covered. There was a lot more focus on love for students and for ourselves. Definitely no focus on ‘learning loss’ or filling any gaps.” “The past 2 school years our Admin took away the expectation around curriculum—there was no longer pressure to teach the entire scope and sequence.” “We were encouraged, directly and often, to cut…

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What Advice Would You Give a Student Teacher?

…5. Put Together a Professional Wardrobe This is an area that a lot of student teachers get wrong. In general, when dressing for school, your clothes should be a little more conservative and a little more dressed up than what you usually wear. If you are young (in your early twenties) and are teaching students who are older (i.e., high school) this is especially important because you need to look different from your students. Before school even starts, learn your host school’s dress code for teachers and follow it, keeping in mind that some of the other teachers in your…

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Why Every Teacher Should Attend an Unconference

…same thing as an Edcamp, so I signed up. And I’m really glad I did. What My Unconference Was Like All attendees convened at 8:30 a.m. in a big auditorium. Dress code was very casual, which I loved (professional dress makes me cranky). After an informal opening talk from conference organizers Will King and Allen Martin, an 8-year-old girl named Gracie gave a really charming presentation about being a digital native and encouraged us to let her and her peers follow their passions. Then we were off to attend the sessions of our choice, each of them just 20 minutes…

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Why Teaching is Like Dating

…and associations. We tend to assume that the “cool teacher” means that teacher’s class must be really easy. It comes with a certain dress code, style, and dialect that students find relevant. People say things like “I don’t need my students to like me” in the teachers’ lounge and that seems to earn them a badge of honor. It’s like we’ve been trained to respect the hard ass, and judge the teacher that students actually enjoy. It makes no sense. But I’ve seen the “cool teacher” come in all ages, shape, colors, and sizes. Their styles look more grandpa than…

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Let’s Talk About the Leader in Me

…kids to work together.. do that too… listen then talk,,, check. I think it is what what any good teachers does. Josh Yes, LIM is an expensive program, but it is a great program. Some parents do teach values and ethics, but many do not. The job of the teacher is no longer to just teach academics. We need to teach the “whole child.” The LIM program has done so much to address culture and leadership within the school. LIM also address academic success and student engagement in their own learning. Any good program will cost money. It is very…

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