2011
events
January 6, Providence, Rhode
Island: Dr. Sax led a workshop for
teachers, and spoke to parents, at the Lincoln School.
January 10, West Palm Beach,
Florida: Dr. Sax led a workshop for
teachers, and spoke to parents, at the Benjamin School.
January 17, Lititz, Pennsylvania: Dr. Sax met with students, led workshops for
teachers, and spoke to parents, at Linden Hall, the oldest extant girls’ school
in North America, founded in 1746.
January 27/28, Concord, New
Hampshire: Dr. Sax led two days of
training for teachers. Teachers came
from as far away as Pittsburg in the north (on the Canadian border) and from
Nashua in the south. The evening of
January 27, he spoke to parents about challenges facing parents of boys; the evening of January 28, he spoke
to parents about challenges facing parents of girls.
February 9, Columbus, Ohio: Dr. Sax continued a 3-day “strand” of
professional development for Columbus Public Schools.
February 10/11, Vancouver, British
Columbia: Dr. Sax spoke to parents
(2/10), and led workshops for teachers (2/11) at Crofton House School. He also did an interview for the local CBC
affiliate radio station; streaming audio is available online at www.cbc.ca/onthecoast/episodes/2011/02/10/raising-girls/. The Vancouver newspaper also published a
feature article about his visit; the online version is available at http://bit.ly/es22rn.
February 15, Brampton, Ontario: Dr. Sax led a workshop for school social
workers and other professionals who work with adolescents, hosted by the
Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board.
February 17, St. Louis, Missouri: Dr. Sax spoke to parents at the Wilson School
about the importance of sex differences in child and adolescent development.
February 18, St Louis, Missouri: Dr. Sax led a sixth day of professional
development for teachers at the Imagine Academy of Academic Success.
February 21, Surrey, British
Columbia: Dr. Sax led workshops for
teachers, and spoke to parents, at Pacific Academy.
February 24, Niagara Falls,
Ontario: Dr. Sax was a keynote speaker
for the annual conference of COYO, the Committee of Youth Officers for the
Province of Ontario; he also led two breakout sessions.
March 2, Minot, North Dakota: Dr. Sax led a workshop for social workers,
psychologists, school counselors, and other professionals, for North Dakota
State University at Minot. That evening,
he spoke to parents.
March 8, Tacoma, Washington: Dr. Sax
led a workshop attended by teachers and administrators from Tacoma Public
Schools, hosted by Jason Lee Middle School.
That evening, he spoke to parents.
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March 16, Detroit, Michigan: Dr. Sax led a full-day workshop for teachers. That evening, he spoke to more than 700
parents at the University of Detroit Jesuit Academy on
the topic of “boys adrift.”
March 25/26, Tampa, Florida: Dr. Sax led workshops for teachers (including
a special full-day teachers’ workshop on Saturday March 26), and spoke to
parents, at events hosted by the School District of Hillsborough County.
April 12, Brampton, Ontario: Dr. Sax led a second workshop for school
professionals, again hosted by the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School
Board.
April 14 – 15, Minneapolis,
Minnesota: Dr. Sax spoke to parents, and
to school professionals, on gender issues in child and adolescent development.
April 27 – 28, Duluth, Minnesota: Dr. Sax led five workshops on gender issues,
all hosted by the Northland Foundation:
for juvenile justice professionals; for physicians; for youth workers; for
teachers; and for parents. The evening of April 27, he spoke to parents about
problems facing boys; the evening of
April 28, he spoke to parents about challenges facing girls.
April 30, Charleston, West
Virginia: Dr. Sax returned to Stonewall
Jackson Middle School to lead a weekend workshop for teachers.
May 18: Columbus, Ohio: Dr. Sax led the third and final day in a
3-day “strand” of professional development for Columbus Public Schools.
June 16/17: Madison, Wisconsin: Dr. Sax led a two-day workshop on
gender-specific best practice for the classroom, hosted by the University of
Wisconsin. This event was attended not
only by teachers from all across Wisconsin but also from Georgia, Illinois,
Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, West Virginia, and Washington DC.
June 29: Dr. Sax was a guest for a
one-hour interview on XM Radio “Doctor Radio” (Sirius / XM channel 81),
discussing the important of gender, and gender variations, in child and
adolescent development.
July 14, DePere,
Wisconsin: Dr. Sax led a workshop on
gender issues, for the F.I.E.L. Fellows conference (primarily public school
administrators).
July 18, Tampa, Florida: Dr. Sax returned to Tampa to lead another
full-day workshop for public school teachers.
July 26, Charlotte, North Carolina:
Dr. Sax led a full-day workshop for the Teaching Fellows Institute. That evening, he spoke to parents.
July 28: Dr. Sax did a 45-minute live interview for
KERA, North Texas Public Radio (Dallas /
August 1 & 2, Hazel Crest,
Illinois: Dr. Sax returned to Hazel
Crest public schools to lead a two-day workshop for teachers there.
August 4 & 5, Atlanta, Georgia: Dr. Sax led a two-day workshop for teachers
at the Wesley Imagine International Academy, a public charter school; he also spoke
to parents the evening of August 4.
August 9/10,
August 16,
August 18,
1. Girls on the Edge: A keynote address in which Dr. Sax will describe trends affecting girls, putting more girls at risk, in almost every demographic group
2. Boys Adrift: a breakout session in which Dr. Sax will share strategies which other communities have used to re-engage boys and young men to become productive, courteous and responsible.
3. Facebook Ate My Daughter: a breakout session to consider how the emerging world of social networking is putting girls in a new kind of jeopardy (this was the most popular breakout at the conference, with 94 attendees).
August 22/23,
August 29: Dr. Sax was the guest for a
30-minute interview about the challenges facing girls and young women today,
hosted by KPFA, public radio for Berkeley, California, streaming audio
available at http://kpfawomensmag.blogspot.com/2011/08/august-29th-girls-in-age-of-facebook.html
August 30/31, New
September 16,
October 8/9,
October 22, Lake Forest, Illinois: Dr.
Sax led a full-day workshop for the Special Education District of Lake
County. That evening, he spoke to
parents.
October 28,
November 7, Wilmington, Delaware: Dr. Sax led a workshop for teachers at Padua
Academy. That evening, he spoke to
parents about the challenges facing girls in the era of texting, Facebook, and
YouTube.
November 10, Sugar Land, Texas: Dr.
Sax led a full-day workshop on the topic of “boys adrift”: addressing the
question of why we find so many boys
who are not working up to their potential, and what parents and teachers can do about it.
November 11, Dallas, Texas: Dr. Sax delivered
a keynote address, and led two breakout sessions, for the conference of the
Independent Educational Consultants Association (www.iecaonline.com). The keynote address was titled “Why Gender
Matters”; the breakout sessions were “Facebook Ate My Daughter” and “Boys
Adrift.”
November 17 – 18, Willmar, Minnesota:
Dr. Sax gave an evening keynote presentation, and led a full day of workshops,
for the annual conference of Pact 4 Families Collaborative, www.pact4.org.
November 30, Princeton, New Jersey:
Dr. Sax led a workshop for teachers at Stuart Country Day School. That evening, he spoke to parents about the
challenges facing girls in the era of Lady Gaga, Rihanna,
24/7 texting, Facebook, and YouTube.
December 5,
December 7, Princeton, New Jersey: Dr.
Sax led a workshop for teachers at Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart. That evening, he spoke to parents about the
challenges facing boys in the era of Call
of Duty, Halo, and Eminem,
growing up in a popular culture which teaches that academic achievement and
scholarship are unmasculine.
To go to Dr. Sax’s personal web site,
click on www.leonardsax.com.
To go to the web site of the
To go to the web site of the National
Association for Single Sex Public Education, click on www.singlesexschools.org.
To go to the web site of the
Association for Choice in Education, click on www.4schoolchoice.org.