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American Indian Father/Daughter Relationships and the Shared Civic Responsibility for American Indian Education. Jan Perry Evenstad, PhD, Research Associate, Interwest Equity Assistance Center, Denver, CO

Beyond Title IX: Why Separate is not Equal in Sports. Eileen McDonagh, Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, MA & Laura Pappano, Free Lance Journalist, West Newton, MA

Counteracting Myths That Make it Hard to Achieve Gender Equity Through Education. Sue Klein, Education Equity Director, Feminist Majority Foundation, Arlington, VA & Dolores (Dee) Grayson, Ph.D. Executive Director/Co-Owner, GrayMill Consulting, Tehachapi, CA & Barbara A. Bitters, Assistant Director, Career & Tech Ed., Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Madison, WI & Mimi Lufkin, Executive Director, National Alliance for Partnerships in Education (NAPE), Cochranville, PA & William Howe, Ed.D., Education Consultant, Connecticut State Department of Education, Middletown, CT & Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Esq., Professor of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law, Jacksonville, FL & Jan Perry Evenstad, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Interwest Equity Assistance Center, Denver, CO

Critical Social Skills Students Are NOT Learning in the NCLB Era. William Howe, Ed.D, Education Consultant, Connecticut State Department of Education, Middletown, CT

Developing Early Interventions to Encourage Gender Equity in STEM Careers. Rosalind Barnet, Director of Community, Families & Work Program & Resident Scholar, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA & Connie Chow, Executive Director, Science Club for Girls, Cambridge, MA

Disability in Sport: Addressing the Need for Physical Activity and Athletic Participation Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities. Terri Lakowski, Public Policy Director, Women's Sports Foundation, Bethesda, MD

A Discussion of Gender-Based Language and Cultural Competencies in a Professional Development Model. Maria Pacheco, Ed.D., Director, Equity & Diversity Programs, Education Alliance, Brown University, Providence, RI

The Educational and Occupational Attainment Process for American Women. Yukiko Inoue, Professor of Educational Research, University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam

Emerging Legal Issues Relating to Gender Equity in Education. Neena Chaudhry, Counsel, National Women's Law Center, Washington, DC & Linda J. Wharton, Associate Professor of Political Science, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ

Equal Play: How Athletic Departments Are Shaping the Law for Women in Education. Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Esq., Professor of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law, Jacksonville, FL

The Faces of Women's Athletics: A Look at Racialized Media Depictions of African American Female Athletes (1977-2007). Jenny Lind Withycombe, Doctoral Candidate, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Family Tools and Technology. Mary E. Switzer, Gender Equity/Diversity Coach & FTT Program Director, TQE-R Program at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Forum for Title IX Coordinators. Linda Shevitz, Educational Equity Specialist, Maryland State Department of Education, Baltimore, MD & Kathy Rigsby, Senior Research Associate, Interwest Equity Assistance Center, Denver, CO

The Future Ipods and Roombas are Dead. Deborah Muscella, Executive Director, Girls Get Connected at Simmons, Boston, MA

Girls and Athletics – Competition or Cruelty. Robin D'Antona, Ed.D., President, International Bullying Prevention Association, East Falmouth, MA & Meline Kevorkian, Ed.D, Associate Dean--Graduate Programs--Fischler School of Education, NOVA Southeastern University, North Miami Beach, FL

Growing up a "Girl" in the Islands--Multicultural Perspectives on Gender Development. Donalda Silva, Equity and Diversity Specialist, The Education Alliance, Brown University, Providence, RI & Phyllis Hardy, Program Planning Specialist, The Education Alliance, Brown University, Providence, RI

Implications and Guidelines for Equity After the Supreme Court's Louisville Decision. Richard W. Cole, Esq., Civil Rights and Safe Schools Consultant, Boston, MA & Maree F. Sneed, Esq., Partner, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, Washington, DC
               
The Importance of Education for Pregnant and Parenting Students and Strategies to Keep Them in School. Abby Kahn, Program & Policy Coordinator, Healthy Teen Network, Baltimore, MD & Neena Chaudhry, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center, Washington, DC

Making Connections through Science: Tools for Promoting Relational Learning in an Urban After-School Science Program. Georgia Sassen, Executive Director, Building Resilience in Kids, Harvard, MA & Connie Chow, Executive Director, Science Club for Girls, Cambridge, MA

New Frontiers in Social-Emotional Learning, School Climate, Brain Research, and Academic Achievement. Randy Ross, MS, MA, Equity Specialist, New England Equity Assistance Center at Education Alliance, Providence, RI

Pink & Blue Brains: Delivering Equity in the Brain Research Era. Tasha Lebow, Program Manager, Programs for Educational Opportunity, Ann Arbor, MI

Providing Pathways and Possibilities for Mathematics & Science Achievement through Equity and Engagement. Kathryn Brown, Mathematics and Technology Specialist, & Educational Associate, Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA), San Antonio, TX & Veronica Betancourt, Science Specialist, Educational Associate, Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA), San Antonio, TX

Separate. Different. Equal?: Single-Sex Schools and Classrooms in Public Education. Howard Glasser, Doctoral Candidate, Michigan State University, Okemos, MI

Sex Segregation in Public K-12 Education:  The State of the States. Sue Klein, Equity Director, Feminist Majority Foundation, Arlington, VA & Emily Martin, Deputy Director Women's Rights Project, ACLU, New York, NY & Roberta Stanley, Director, Office of Admin. Law & Federal Regulations, Title IX Coordinator, Michigan Dept. of Education, Lansing, MI & Adeola Fayami, Title IX Coordinator, Director K-20 Office of Equity and Access, Florida Dept. of Education, Tallahassee, FL, & Shirley McCune, Title IX Coordinator, Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia, WA.

Sexual Harassment in Schools: The Gendered Dimensions of School Violence and Precursors to Teen Dating Violence. Nan D. Stein, Senior Research Scientist, Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Wellesley, MA

STEM Equity Pipeline Project Overview and Year One Experiences. Barbara A. Bitters, Assistant Director, Career & Tech Ed., Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Madison, WI and Howard Glasser, Doctoral Candidate, Michigan State University, Okemos, MI

Strong Women, Strong Girls: A Model for Building Leadership Among College Women to be Advocates for Girls. Lindsay Hyde, President, Strong Women, Strong Girls, Inc., Boston, MA

Take Me Out To the Ballgame: Gender Equity for Transgender, Lesbian and Women Athletes of Color in School Sports. Karen Doering, Civil Rights Attorney and Former Sports Project Attorney, National Center for Lesbian Rights, St. Petersburg, FL & Pat Griffin, Director, It Takes a Team; Professor Emerita, Social Justice Education, Women's Sports Foundation, Belchertown, MA & Lea Robinson, Student, Masters in Education; Former player & coach of Womens' Division I Basketball, Suffolk University, Somerville, MA & Helen Carroll, Sports Project Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, CA

Teaching Domestic, Learning International:  Changing School Climate Regarding Gender Roles. Sherwood Smith, Director, Center for Cultural Pluralism, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT & John Mejia, Program Coordinator, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning & Allies Services, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Title IX and Athletics: A Public Policy and Legislative Update. Terri Lakowski, Public Policy Director, Women's Sports Foundation, Bethesda, MD

What Every Teacher Needs to Know About the Role of Multicultural Education in the Era of NCLB and Civil Rights. William Howe, Ed.D, Education Consultant, Connecticut State Department of Education, Middletown, CT

When Action Frees Our Dreams: How Gender Fair Education Changed the Nation. Sarita Pillai, Project Director, Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), Newton, MA and Vivian Guilfoy, Senior Vice President, Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), Newton, MA and Katherine Hanson, Consultant/Writer and former EDC Strategic Director, New York, NY

Women in Technology (WIT): Building Systemic Change in STEM Education and Employment. Leslie Wilkins, President, Women in Technology Project Director, Maui Economic Development Board, Inc., Kihei, HI & Isla Young, Program Manager, MEDB/Women in Technology, Kihei, HI