There is no evidence from the data that because of his gender Alphonso was privileged, that he enjoyed a “glass escalator” effect (Sumison, 1999, p. 460), or that others within the center held lower expectations of him. Marta's assignment as lead teacher and the education she had completed in order to hold this position meant she formally had more academic responsibility within the classroom and was paid considerably more than Alphonso. However both teachers, as the findings showed, worked extremely hard, purposefully using virtually all of class time available to move learning forward. There was no evidence of lower performance expectations for Alphonso, either by administrators or by Marta and Alphonso themselves. This conclusion is supported by the high CLASS scores the team received recognizing both teachers' contributions to the classroom atmosphere and to child learning and development. This result is consistent with the conclusion of Mallozzi and Galman (2014) from their analysis of interviews of two inservice male teachers and two preservice female teachers: that male teachers should not be “celebrated [simply] for doing what is expectb ed for and with students” (p. 275).