Our administration supported this trial with the timetable. Every week for a two-period block, the


Grade 8 girls work with me and Ms. Zianis in the library learning commons, and the boys work with Mr. Cheney. Sometimes we work on the same project but in differ- ent spaces, and sometimes our focus is on completely different tasks. For example, to start our learning at the beginning of the year, we introduced the girls to Eugenia Duodu Addy, a Toronto-based chemist and the CEO of Visions of Science, a non-profit that offers STEM programming to low- income students. In her TEDx Talk, Addy speaks of how she grew up knowing about very few women in science, and even fewer Black women, leading her to work on break- ing barriers for other young women. Presentations like this allowed us to initiate


conversations about representation with the girls. Many girls talked about learning about men and women in science equally when they were really little, but somewhere along the way, STEM became more for and about boys. Te girls shared with me that they used to


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