If we want girls who are confident, wide-awake, and fully engaged in the world around them, we need gender-attuned and informed teachers in their classrooms. Teaching Girls deftly balances the latest research on gender with specific lessons and educational strategies that work for girls. We know they work not only because we hear from seasoned teachers, but because girls themselves weigh in on what excites them about learning.

Lyn Mikel Brown, Professor of Education, Colby College; author, "Girl: Powered By Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists"

In Teaching Girls: How Teachers and Parents Can Reach Their Brains and Hearts, Kuriloff, Andrus, and Jacobs provide anyone who is invested in education and wants to learn more about how to shape learning environments that optimize learning for girls with insights and pragmatic suggestions. Using the illustrative accounts of girls and their teachers, and school-based examples, the authors avoid stereotypical thinking and offer a nuanced understanding of how gender can influence learning. The book is a rich resource for teachers and parents because it is filled with ideas to ponder, discuss, and apply to our day to day interactions with our students and children.

John D'Auria, president, Teachers21

Teaching Girls: How Teachers and Parents Can Reach Their Brains and Hearts is a compendium of excellent teaching strategies, often narrated by the girls themselves. It is a well-researched and thoughtful study of what works and what empowers girls as learners. This is a must read for anyone who teaches girls or simply loves the wonderfully quirky and sometimes tumultuous landscape of their lives, both in and out of the classroom. As someone who has been involved in girls’ education for over 30 years, this is a truly wonderful addition to my burgeoning library.

Priscilla Sands, EdD, Head, Marlborough School

Finally, a practical, easy-to-read book that teaches us how girls become deeply engaged at school, and why. The authors shatter outdated myths about how girls learn and tell us what the research really says about girls’ brains. Most importantly, they listen to the voices of girls and teachers. Now, more than ever, it’s crucial to understand what a girls’ education is meant for, and can be. If you’re an educator of girls, you need this book.

Rachel Simmons, author of “Odd Girl Out” and “The Curse of the Good Girl”

Those of us with daughters and those of us who teach girls need to read this book. This timely, engaging, and highly accessible study is an invaluable resource. The authors have gathered an incredible amount of information from the girls themselves, as well as their teachers, presenting a wide range of exciting ideas and strategies. I couldn’t put it down!

Katherine Schultz, Dean, University of Colorado Boulder

What I like best about Teaching Girls is how commonsensical and accessible it is. There is no pretense that much of what is said wouldn’t also be helpful to boys, but rather a continuing emphasis on how much potential girls have, how most schools have under-valued and under-developed that potential, and how those shortcomings can be readily overcome.

James H. Lytle, former superintendent of the Trenton, NJ Public Schools