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Why should you support Teach About Women?

Carly Moore

​Author, Activist, Teach About Women Educator

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Kayko Donald

​aspiring filmmaker and activist, Teach About Women intern

Joanna Patterson (D'09)

​Teach About Women Board Member

Hi Shonda,

I’ve been a huge fan of yours since Meredith wore a Dartmouth shirt in season one of Grey’s.

The work that Teach About Women does is particularly important to me because I believe in the power of stories to shape the way that we see ourselves. By updating curriculum to include the contributions of women, I hope that all students can see themselves in the stories of the heroes, innovators and leaders that they study in school.

This part April, I ran around Manhattan (32 miles) with 10 friends to raise >$3K for TAW. I’m so excited to see what this amazing organization can accomplish.
​Thanks for reading, Joanna​

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Jason Ablin

​Author and Teach About Women Educator

​Hi Shonda:
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My name is Jason Ablin and I just recently joined the team at Teach about Women. I am so excited about the work this collection of talented educators is already doing! I have been in education for thirty years and have helped teachers build fair gender equity practices for their school communities. ToA will create a powerful collective of thinkers who can generate materials and approaches for this critical work and deliver it to schools. Educators supporting educators!  Also, just LOVED your Master Class on screenwriting and the television biz. Learned so much!

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Mauren Lamb

​Teach About Women Educator

I’m so excited to be working with Teaching About Women, and I’m thrilled that you are interested! You have done so much for bring diverse characters, voices, and stories to television and film.  I’m currently working on two courses. The first is on Gender Equity and Inclusion in the classroom. This course will provide participants with reasons, resources, and strategies for using gender inclusive language in the classroom and creating a safe space to share pronouns. It is so important to create these, inclusive learning spaces for everyone, and teachers need to tools to be able to create those spaces. The second is about Her Story, which will create space for representation of women in  the history of the ancient Mediterranean world, and readings will include works both by and about women. We will also explore why these stories are not often told, and how we can be more inclusive by creating more representation in our history courses. 

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Caroline King

​Writer and Entrepreneur
Teach About Women Educator

Being an educator for Teach About Women has been an uplifting experience. As I create a course about transgender stories, which speaks to a truth you also uphold––that stories are best told by those who have lived them––I’m excited because I know that education is where some of the greatest impacts are made. Not only does TaW have an accessible, wide-reaching strategy to create an environment where everyone can be heard and celebrated regardless of their gender identity, but Georgina’s energy and passion for the project is infectious. It’s been a blessing to support this endeavor, and I can’t wait to witness all the support to come as the project continues brightening many hearts and minds.

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Michael S. Kideckel

Historian, Teacher
Teach About Women Educator

I became involved with Teach About Women (TAW) during my first full-time teaching job, in the history department of an all-girls school. TAW was in its infancy then, and even at that early stage it challenged me to consider the gaps in our national narratives and educational policies. I was lucky enough to get to see how much a curriculum that emphasized women’s roles in history helped empower the students in my classes.


In a new position at a co-ed school, TAW has continued to be a guiding light as I work to educate students about American and world history and to show them how power works. It’s been my privilege to work alongside the talented TAW team to gather sources, develop curricula, and promote gender equity. There’s a lot of work left to do, and I know TAW is up to the challenge.

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Jennifer Lyden 

Teach About Women Board Member 

TAW educated me on the importance of providing teachers with tools necessary to fully develop gender equity discussions from well rounded and well planned lessons. TAW educators do their due diligence to research the benefits of building out this aspect of curriculums for all levels and subjects to truly foster student development. Their behind-the-scenes work allows teachers to make their students into more successful members of society. This passion and heartfelt enthusiasm leads children to be able to interact with more respect on an everyday basis.

Partner Organizations

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Radical Pedagogy Institute

Our Vision:
We dream of an educational system that uses tenets of critical pedagogies–-queer, anti-racist, DisCrit, culturally relevant, and other liberatory pedagogies–-to re/humanize educational experiences for all students. Such educational practices are what we refer to as “radical pedagogy.”

​Our Mission:
The Institute is a space for educators in the greater New Jersey area to foster meaningful connections, obtain the political knowledge needed to organize for change within their communities, and learn how to enact anti-racist, queer, and other critical pedagogies across ALL content areas (yes, even math) and grade levels. Here, teachers are viewed as expert change agents and valuable sources of community knowledge. To that end, members are encouraged to propose professional development ideas with the purpose of sharing the practices of radical pedagogy and political organizing they are employing in their own classrooms and communities.