Title X

1. Title X

2. Guidelines Intent “Prevent gender discrimination in the admission of students, treatment of students and employment of personnel.” “illegal to treat students differently or separately on the basis of gender.” Athletic programs “Selection of teams based on competitive skill and contact sport.” “Law doesn’t require equal funding for girls and guys athletics.” “Requires equal opportunity.” “Male and female athletics are proportionate to school population.” “Schools have a history of expanding female sports.” “School meets interest and abilities of female students.” • “To address the differential, stereotypical, and discriminatory treatment of students on the basis of their gender. It protects students and employees in 16,000 public schools in the United States.”

3. THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM

4. How to combat it? What is it? • “Consists of the unstated norms, values, and beliefs about the social relations of school and classroom life that are transmitted to students.” • “Organizational structures of class and school.” • “Interactions of students and teachers.” • “Central to the operations of most classrooms.” • “Students take turns, stand in line, wait to speak, wait for the teacher to provide individual help…develop patience in order to be successful in a school setting.”

5. Strategies

6. Interactions Curriculum • “Recognize that subtle and unintentional biases do exist • “Make changes based on observations.” • “Eliminate power relationships based on gender • “Create assigned seats, group work, relating material to both genders, don’t group by gender.” • Nonexist education: Education that ateends to the needs of rils and boys equally by incorporating males and females into the curriculum