In this "reader idea" column, a MA English teacher shares her school's process of handling gender issues, from the classroom level to schoolwide. Several resources are shared, including a beginning-of-the-year identity survey, lesson plan ideas for teaching about pronouns, and links to related articles and PDFs.

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"Research on the growth mindset shows that students who believe they can grow their basic abilities have greater motivation and higher achievement than do students who believe their abilities are fixed, and that teachers can influence students’ mindsets. The beginning of the new school year is a great time to establish your classroom as a growth mindset environment."

"I began to make a list some time ago to document the many ways I work to resist the corporate snakes who slither around my feet and try to strangle the love of learning out of my school....The following is simply a quick guide to resisting from within."

This is an outline for a course I want to teach for teachers about personal and professional identity development.