Exploring Boys' Education (Members Channel)

Michael Reichert leads the latest discussion on relational teaching, unpacking what it means to become a relational boys’ school. Get expert advice about putting relational learning at the center of school life. Offering encouragement to teachers facing relational challenges with the boys they teach, he shares strategies for schools as they recover relationally from differing levels of pandemic-induced disconnect.

Miguel Dionis of Viaro Global School (Spain), Peter Coutis of Scotch College (Australia), Kathryn Barnes of Upper Canada College (Canada), and Guy Logan of St. Bernard’s College (Australia) contribute their global perspectives to this essential topic.

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IBSC Exploring Boys’ Education music composed and performed by Tom DiGiovanni. Michael Reichert · IBSC

Following the successful IBSC Ideas Lab about Boys and Sports, get expert insight from Krinesan Moodley of St. Alban’s College (South Africa) and Jo Hackett of The Loughborough Schools Foundation in the United Kingdom. Moodley and Hackett dive into the benefits of sports, positive coaching philosophies in boys’ schools, the dilemma of elite sports’ programs vs. sports for all, and the value of teachers as coaches in boys’ schools St Alban's College · The Loughborough Schools Foundation · IBSC

Hear directly from Peggy Orenstein about her book Boys and Sex, which explores boys’ understanding of masculinity, hookup culture, pornography, and consent. Listen as she unpacks the development of vulnerability in boys and illuminates what boys’ schools can do to promote positive forms of masculinity. Orenstein offers advice about how we can start these essential conversations with boys.

Content Warning: Due to the nature of this topic, some adult themes are discussed.

IBSC Exploring Boys’ Education music composed and performed by Tom DiGiovanni. Peggy Orenstein · Boys and Sex · Peggy Orenstein's Positive Sexuality Resources · IBSC

Hear about the community and diversity journey at Belmont Hill School (United States) from Headmaster Greg Schneider, who explains the practical way the school community has thought about diversity, equity, and inclusion and the focused strategy underpinning their action plan. Following the advice from Lorri Hamilton Durbin, Jakes Fredericks, and Jack Pannell in our last episode, Schneider offers encouragement to other schools around the globe undertaking this essential work.

IBSC Exploring Boys’ Education music composed and performed by Tom DiGiovanni. Belmont Hill School · IBSC

Delve into inclusion and belonging in boys’ schools with Lorri Hamilton Durbin, Jack Pannell, and Jakes Fredericks as they discuss the official statement: IBSC Affirms All Efforts to End Racial Inequity and Social Injustice. They offer advice for boys’ schools about building antiracist schools that embrace all intersectionalities of each boy’s identity and creating greater access and care for boys of color in schools worldwide.

News Sound Bites:

NBC News NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOymwWPRp4I

Huffpost Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXmHM7bvbWs

Yearbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58PELH0YX1Q

DW News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7a4r3Vw47w

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Hear directly from Andrew Reiner about his new book, Better Boys, Better Men: The New Masculinity That Creates Greater Courage and Emotional Resiliency. Reiner explores how modern masculinity is harming and holding back men—and all of society—and illuminates what we can do to promote a new masculinity that lets men of all ages thrive.

IBSC Exploring Boys’ Education music composed and performed by Tom DiGiovanni. Better Boys, Better Men on Harper Collins · IBSC

Hear directly from award-winning, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and No. 1 best-selling author Shimi Kang about her new book, The Tech Solution: Creating Healthy Habits for Kids Growing Up in a Digital World. Kang explores the attention economy of the tech industry and tech addiction. She defines how toxic, junk, and healthy tech impacts the lives of boys, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic has demanded greater online engagement from children and teenagers.

IBSC Exploring Boys’ Education music composed and performed by Tom DiGiovanni. Get The Tech Solution Book · Register for The Tech Solution Online Class · IBSC

In the latest episode of the IBSC Exploring Boys’ Education Podcast, Tim Jarvis from Michaelhouse (South Africa) discusses the essential role pastoral care plays in boys’ schools. Jarvis offers insight into the challenges presented in caring for boys, social and emotional warning signals boys might show, vulnerability in boys, and the importance of advisory and tutor groups in boys’ schools.

Get more details in his blog about effective pastoral care for boys.

IBSC Exploring Boys’ Education music composed and performed by Tom DiGiovanni. Tim Jarvis' Blog · Effective Pastoral Care for Boys · IBSC

Explore strategies to develop boys’ agency in learning with Margot Long, Katy Mellor, Luke Rawle, and Stephen Krawec. The IBSC action researchers share their findings and insights into the power of giving boys freedom to truly develop their own voices, make significant choices, collaborate, innovate, problem solve, ask their own questions, and think deeply.

Read IBSC Action Research reports from Mellor, Rawle, and Krawec in the IBSC Member Center.

IBSC Exploring Boys’ Education music composed and performed by Tom DiGiovanni. IBSC Action Research Reports · IBSC

Explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on boys’ mental wellness with mental health advocate Natasha Devon, who highlights the importance of checking in with boys and offers teachers tips on how to help students process the challenges associated with our new way of life. She also suggests strategies schools can employ to help boys process curriculum disruption and uncertainty.

IBSC Exploring Boys’ Education music composed and performed by Tom DiGiovanni. Natasha Devon · IBSC