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More Praise for Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys

Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys is the best, most practical book about teaching boys that I have ever read. Reading it is like visiting the classrooms of two hundred master teachers who really get boys. Any teacher who has ever struggled to engage boys in the classroomand isnt that every teacher?will want to own this book.

Michael Thompson, Ph.D., author, Best Friends, Worst Enemies:
Understanding the Social Lives of Children, and coauthor of the New York
Times best seller Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

Reichert and Hawley take us beyond the grim realities of the boy crisis to reveal how some schools and teachers are winning with boys. Here, at last, is the help we have all been hoping for.

F. Washington Jarvis, director, Educational Leadership and Ministry
Program, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University, headmaster emeritus,
The Roxbury Latin School

For those who believe that the full potential of boys is a distant hope, Reichert and Hawley obliterate that assumption. The authors have pulled together a commonsense and intuitive collection of strategies that work. It is a must-read for anyone who believes that all boys can excel. Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys is just in time!

Ron Walker, executive director, Coalition of Schools
Educating Boys of Color

This book is the best kind of writing about schools: knowledgeable about theory, but rooted in a wealth of practical experience. It offers profound insight into the way boys learn and what teachers need to do to be effective. It is about boys learning in real time.

Anthony R. M. Little, headmaster, Eton College, Windsor, England

Through highlighting teachers and boys perspectives on what works in the classroom, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys offers valuable insight into effective strategies and practical advice for fostering intellectual and emotional engagement, inspiring a love of learning, and bolstering sources of strength and support... among both boys and girls. This book is an important resource for educators and parents seeking to understand what students need in order to thrive, not merely survive, in school.

Judy Chu, lecturer, Stanford University School of Education, co-editor,
Adolescent Boys: Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood

In this book, Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley offer us solid research into what works in reaching and teaching boys in our schools. As well, they present us with the actual voices of teachers and boysa powerful combinationand we benefit as educators from these anecdotes of successful classroom experiences, enriched by the authors insightful interpretations.

David Booth, Ph.D., research chair in Literacy, Nipissing University,
Ontario, Canada

One of the most effective ways of improving student outcomes is to enhance the quality of instruction. This book provides unique insights into quality teaching and learning experiences for boys based on real classrooms and real teachers. It is a tonic and guide for all those who are interested in what is best for our boys.

Garth Wynne, headmaster, Christ Church Grammar School,
Perth, Western Australia

ABOUT THIS BOOK

If there is a crisis in boys education, answers are not hard to find. Thousands of teachers around the world have found the secret to making lessons successful for boys. Despite a continuing stream of concern on the part of researchers, demographers, and cultural pundits about a crisis in boys social development and schooling, surprisingly little attention has been paid to what is perhaps the richest pool of data: current, observable teaching practices that clearly work with boys. In schools of all types in all regions of the globe, many boys are thriving. Boys of limited, ordinary, and exceptional tested aptitude; boys of every economic strata; boys of all races and faithssome of themare appreciatively engaged and taught well every day.

A study of teachers and students conducted by a psychologist and an educator at schools in six countriesthe United States, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, South Africa, and Australiafound profound similarities in successful lessons for boys. Using the testimony of teachers and boys themselves, this book offers a host of examples of approaches that have been honed by classroom practice to engage boys in learning.

In particular, the book also offers three key insights into boys lives that shape successful approaches to teaching:

1. Boys are relational learners. Establishing an affective relationship is a precondition to successful teaching for boys.

2. Boys elicit the kinds of teaching they need. Teaching boys has a feedback dynamic in which ineffective practice disengages boys, which causes teachers to adjust pedagogy until responsiveness and mastery improve.

3. Lessons for boys have transitivity. Successful lessons have an element that arouses and holds students interest.

Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys introduces concerned parents, practicing teachers, and whole schools to classroom practices that have been proved worldwide to engage boys in school work, resulting in the kind of confident mastery that leads to life-long learning.

FOREWORD

Maybe you picked up this book because you work in an all-boys school and are wondering how to engage the kids who always sit in the back row. Or maybe you are a school administrator who has noticed that boys make up the majority of behavioral problems in your division. Perhaps you work in a mixed-gender school and have spotted the ever-present achievement gap between boys and girls, especially around reading and writing. Or maybe you are a parent who is wondering just how it came to be that while you cherished your school days, your own school-aged son barely tolerates his teachers and classrooms.

For a long time, we pretended the so-called boy problem did not exist. But experts have begun reaching a consensus on a myriad ways in which boys are falling behind. In school in the United States, for example, boys are retained at twice the rate of girls, are identified as having learning disorders and attention problem at three times the rates of girls, and get more Cs and Ds and do less homework than girls do. With the exception of sports, boys have all but withdrawn from extracurricular activities like class plays, the school newspaper, and the marching band. And boys are more likely to drop out of school. Right now in the United States, 2.5 million more girls than boys attend college. The underachievement of boys in the United States is echoed in nearly every industrialized country where boys and girls have equal access to education.

For a long time, we blamed the failure of boys on boys themselves. But that conversation has begun to change. The phenomenon is simply too pervasiveand in these recessionary times, too expensiveto assert once again that school-aged boys need to change to better suit our current set of educational conventions. Policymakers in the United States calculate that if 5 percent more boys completed high school and matriculated to college, the nation would save $8 billion a year in welfare and criminal justice costs. Around the world, the costs of male underachievementlost opportunity, dampened climate for innovation, increased poverty and joblessnessgrow every day. We canindeed we mustdo better.

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