Media Highlights

Article: Boys Speak Up, Girls Silenced in the Classroom

Newswise—Boys talk nine times more than girls in the classroom—and are encouraged to do so—according to findings from a new language...

Globe & Mail Essay: I Dreaded Taking Students On A Travel Study to Africa

I’m a teacher’s teacher. That is, I teach teachers-in-training at a local university. I do this for a living and have for many years....

Article: Eleven Ways To Avoid Sounding Like a Sexist Jerk–Even If You’re a Woman

Whatever your opinion of the campaign by Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In foundation to ban the word bossy — which, for the record, I advised on...

Article: B.C. teachers need gender training, professor Allyson Jule says

Future teachers in B.C. should be required to take a course on gender in the classroom, according to Allyson Jule. The professor of...

Article: Experts say gender roles are taught in our classrooms.

This is how gender expert and author Allyson Jule sees the difference between how educators treat boys and girls in the classroom: “If a...

Article: The book that changed my life

Much time may be spent on readings that don’t inspire, but there’s no denying the impression left by a book that is impossible to forget....

Article: Women’s studies programs fight for recognition

The bad news broke on a Monday night in February 2016. Earlier that day, Lisa Dawn Hamilton, acting director of Mount Allison...

Article: Men have to say #IDidThatToo to workplace sexual harassment

With the exception of the Harvey Weinsteins and Matt Lauers of the world, why is it that men who have been accused of being involved in...

Article: Why do we have difficulty accepting the variety of gender expressions?

Gender is not binary, but alters from culture to culture, from generation to generation. I know we’ve all heard this stuff before: men...

Podcast: Speaking Up Understanding Language and Gender

In a time where concepts such as gender pronouns, sexual assault and harassment, and toxic masculinity are entering and shaping public...

Podcast – Learning Matters

A podcast with Dr. Allyson Jule, titled Learning Matters. Listen to the podcast here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/763976/3580816-20-learni...

Allyson Jule Quoted in this CBC article:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-teacher-graduates-challenges-1.6546917