Active Voices: Spring 2020
What is toxic masculinity, exactly? Toxic masculinity “is what can come of teaching boys that they can’t express emotion openly; that they have to be ‘tough all the time’; that anything other than that makes them ‘feminine’ or weak,” notes Maya Salam in The New York Times article “What Is Toxic Masculinity?” Cultural expectations make...
Advise, Advise: Volume 48 (2019-2020)
Take 10: Spring 2020
Empower Student Voice Julie Kasper, assistant principal at Century High School in Hillsboro, OR, and former student activities director, encourages her students to rise up and be heard by: Running nonpartisan social media accounts to inform classmates of events at which they can use their voices and share their opinions, such as town halls Encouraging...
Advise, Advise: Volume 48 (2019-2020)