We had a great meeting today (Thursday, May 18th, 2006) at Push. Patti, Katherine, Sheila, Cherith, Michelle, Sheila, Jake, Sonia Glazer and I met to discuss Odd Girl Out -- our conversation was thoughtful and wide-ranging. We talked about everything from our own experiences with childhood friends to our adult relationships to what we've observed with students. Jake did his part bringing in the male point of view (and confirming what the book said about the different ways boys and girls deal with conflict in friendships), and Sonia really shed light as a parent of a former student. We spent quite some time discussing how we could use what we had learned from the book to inform our work with students, especially in terms of advisory. One idea we had was partnering up advisories in groups of two or three so that at different times during the year we could break kids up into same-gender groups to have some important conversations with girls about how they treat each other. This of course led us to wonder what we'd talk to the boys about! Which brings us to the next point...
...announcing the second meeting of the Salk Staff Book Club!
There was a great deal of interest in now reading a "boy" book -- so our next book will be Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson. We will meet Wednesday, June 21st, again at 4:30 PM at Push (3rd Ave. between 22nd and 23rd St.). Please keep in mind that you do NOT have to finish reading the book to join -- some people today had only read parts of the book, and we found that we were still able to have a really rich discussion. So please mark your calendar, get yourself a copy of the book, and plan on joining us on June 21st!!
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