Women in the Workplace
Education has traditionally been a female-dominated workplace, even as the rest of society and the world has been male-dominated. Luckily, women have come leaps and bounds the last century (though I would argue there is still a lot of ground to cover). The other day I was thinking about my educational role models and the names that are often referenced today and I came to the startling conclusion that most of them are male. In college I consumed all of Ron Clark's books, especially The Essential 55: An Award Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child . As a professional educator, I am evaluated using Dr. Robert J. Marzano's model and am currently working to incorporate his book about Building Academic Vocabulary . As a teacher who is constantly looking to improve and grow, I'm in the process of devouring Timothy Walker's Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms . I have been so fortunate that social