Sexuality education at the dawn of a new century is in many ways predetermined and controlled by centuries-old attitudes, beliefs, values, and myths. Creating new paradigms that serve students well in today's world is a matter of recognizing the old paradigms and reframing them based on what we already do so well in independent school education: pedagogy, critical thinking, a developmental-based attentiveness to the "whole child," and partnership with parents. This issue explores ways schools can improve the quality of their sexuality education as part of the overall curriculum.
Sexuality Eduation Today
A New Look at Old Paradigms
The More Things Change, the More Other Things Need to Stay the Same
DEBORAH M. ROFFMAN
Pedagogically Speaking
Teaching Outside Pandora's Box
DEBORAH M. ROFFMAN
Hook-Ups and Hang-Ups
A Primer for Faculty and Advisors in Talking with Students About Healthy Relationships
SUSAN PERRY AND AL VERNACCHIO
From the Dress-Up Corner to the Senior Prom
Navigating Gender and Sexual Identity Development in School
JENNIFER BRYAN
Seeking Balance
The Online Lives of Children and Adolescents
JUDY McCLEESE AND SEAN McCLEESE
When Chris Becomes Courtney
Preparing a Pre-K–8 School Community for a Transgendering Student
JOHN PETERMAN
Maintaining Boundaries
Four Guidelines for Educators in a Teenage World
SUSAN EVA PORTER
School Matters
Drugs, Alcohol, and Independent Schools
A New Look at Confounding Problem
LIBBY CATALDI
Nothing to Be Done?
Faculty Response to Adolescent Grieving
JOYCE SHERRY
The Anatomy of a Crisis
Helping a School Deal with the Death of a Student
ADAM C. RROHDIE
Reflection in the Rearview Mirror of a Departing Board Chair
JOSEPH DiPRISCO
Departments
Editor’s Note
Independent Perspective
Assuring Healthy Schools
PATRICK F. BASSETT
The Teaching Life
Authentic Learning for Authentic Life
JAKE GIESSMAN
Spotlight on Research
On School Marketing, Generational Views, and Job Satisfaction
SUSAN BOOTH AND DONNA OREM
About Books
INDEPENDENT READING
Harvard Speaks
RICHARD BARBIERI
Goodbye, J.D.
Two Vies on The Catcher in the Rye
MICHAEL C. OBEL-OMIA AND ANTHNY G. FEATHERSTON IV
Independent School Parent
Empathy Can Ease the Pressure
(A Very Short Play in One Act)
DANE L. PETERS
PLUS
http://www.independentschool.org/
FROM ASSIMILATION TO INCLUSION
How White Educators Can Make Diversity Work
MICHAEL BROSNAN
From the Archives
Fostering Connection, Compassion and Character at School
Winter 2002
RACHEL KESSLER
The Independent Blogosphere
Links to our favorite blogs
The Ethical School
Ethical dillemas in independent schools Tribute to David Mallery
Reflections on the Life and Work of David Mallery
The Cool Books Project
Literature worth reading — and teaching
