Table of Contents

PART ONE The Case for Single-Sex Classrooms.
ONE Single-Sex Classrooms Are Succeeding.


TWO How Boys and Girls Learn Differently.


PART TWO Setting Up and Maintaining Your Single-Sex
Program.


THREE Setting Up a Single-Sex Instructional Program.


FOUR Four Tools for Evaluating Your Existing Single-Sex
Instructional Program.


PART THREE Teaching to the Learning Strengths of Boys and
Girls.


FIVE A Boy-Friendly Classroom?What Does It Look Like?


SIX A Girl-Friendly Classroom?What Does It Look Like?


SEVEN Strategies for Teaching Core Curricula to Boys.


EIGHT Strategies for Teaching Core Curricula to Girls.


NINE Building Relationships Through Single-Sex Experiences.


Epilogue.


Sources.


Index.

About the Author

THE AUTHORS

MICHAEL GURIAN is an educator and the New York Times bestselling author of The Wonder of Boys, The Minds of Boys, Boys and Girls Learn Differently! and The Wonder of Girls. The Gurian Institute, which he co-founded, conducts research and trains educators in single-sex and co-educational environments throughout the world.

KATHY STEVENS is executive director of the Gurian Institute, with twenty-five years of experience in the classroom. She is also co-author of The Minds of Boys, Strategies for Teaching Boys & Girls: Elementary Level, and Strategies for Teaching Boys & Girls: Secondary Level.

PEGGY DANIELS is a Gurian Institute master trainer with more than 30 years of experience as a teacher and administrator. At Carolina Day Middle School, she is principal of one of the nation's most successful single-sex programs.