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Mikki Shaw

Dr. Mikki Shaw has worked in education for over 40 years, as a high school teacher and as a teacher educator. She has a deep commitment to public education and to students at risk.
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Stories Can Offer Affirming Models of Love and Acceptance

This holiday season, share stories with children that deepen our values and celebrate our shared humanity. “Fireflies,” our newest children’s story about family, love and identity, gives children affirming messages and offers a model to adults on responding to a child questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity. When 10-year-old Kaden wonders whether he’s gay, he turns to his older brother Zain, who offers the love and acceptance all caring adults should give to a child.

  • Fireflies
  • Growing Together: For Children and Families
  • Amanda Gorman
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Learning for Justice Through Film

Narratives are a deeply meaningful way that we learn about ourselves, each other and the world. And film can be a powerful medium for expression, connection and learning, helping to build empathy and understanding
September 16, 2025
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Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month

October is LGBTQ+ History Month. LGBTQ+ people have always existed, but LGBTQ+ history, which is an integral part of the history of the United States, has often been ignored or erased. We offer a few of our resources for learning and teaching about the contributions of LGBTQ+ people, including articles, posters and our 13-episode podcast series, Queer America, devoted to this understudied history.

  • Queer America Podcast
  • Supporting LGBTQ+ Rights and Inclusion
  • Black LGBTQ History: Teachers Must Do a Better Job
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10,000 Dresses

Every night Bailey dreams about dresses, but each day his mother, father, and brother remind him that he is a boy and dresses aren't for him. Finally, he finds a friend who embraces both his love for dresses and the individual he feels he is inside.
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Marcus Ewert
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K-2 3-5
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Gender & Sexual Identity
Social Justice Domain
Identity Justice
July 2, 2014
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Julie Alice Huson

Julie is an educator and curriculum writer in California. She recently received the Distinguished Award for Teaching Fulbright and researched and taught in England where she developed a curriculum entitled No One Is From Here, about immigration.
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Geneva Gay

Geneva Gay is a professor of education at the University of Washington-Seattle, where she teaches multicultural education and general curriculum theory. She is nationally and internationally known for her scholarship in multicultural education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, staff development, classroom instruction and intersections of culture, race, ethnicity, teaching and learning. She has written a number of books and book chapters, including the book Culturally Responsive Teaching. She works with Scott Foresman as a member of the authorship team for its New Elementary
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Sherry Frachey

Sherry has been an educator for 39 years and currently serves as the student support leader at Iles School in Springfield, Illinois. Frachey became passionate about stress reduction and restorative justice practices in schools and now partners with the Memorial Medical Center Foundation and the Harvard School of Medicine’s Benson-Henry Mind/Body Institute to teach The Relaxation Response, a stress-reduction program that uses developmentally appropriate exercises for school-age children. Her work has been featured on Yoko Ono’s website IMAGINE PEACE, Everyone Matters and Free the Children.