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July 15, 2011

Get Past the Discomfort, Discuss LGBT Issues

I work as an instructional coach at a large, diverse and underperforming urban public elementary school. Our students are at-risk. Families are struggling with stress and trauma. Teachers work mightily to close the achievement gap. So as I left a third-grade classroom the other day after a check-in with the teacher, I wasn’t surprised when she said, “Wait, can I ask you one more thing?”

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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October 8, 2015

Day of the Girl 2015

Here’s how one teacher is engaging her students on Day of the Girl, observed annually on October 11. Try these ideas in your classroom, too.

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Bullying & Bias Gender & Sexual Identity

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Appendix A

The LGBTQ Library Books and Films for You and Your Classroom This list of books and films—with options for students of all ages and reading levels—offers a good starting place for educators who need to diversify their

November 6, 2018

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September 26, 2013

Put Your Hand Up

Hand-raising workshops combat participation inequity.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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May 22, 2018

Love Your Magic Conference

Read about how one teacher used a Learning for Justice grant to help fund a daylong conference empowering girls of color in Boston.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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June 27, 2022

My Pride Is Black, My Juneteenth Is Queer

Young Black people carry LGBTQ flags in what looks like a parade.

The celebration of Pride and Juneteenth offers an opportunity for reflection on intersecting identities and highlights the need to support and make space for Black LGBTQ youth.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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March 26, 2019

Teaching First-Graders About Microaggressions: The Small Moments Add Up

Two young students reading separate books.

For younger students, understanding that identity-based microaggressions pose a heavier burden than other painful moments is critical to developing anti-racist, empathetic behaviors.

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Religion Class Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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Remarks by the President at Reception Commemorating the Enactment of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act

In this speech, President Obama celebrates legislation that provides legal protection from crimes based on gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation. In his remarks, Obama looks forward to further legislation that helps “the bells of freedom ring out a little louder.”

Barack Obama

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9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

Economics

Geography

March 3, 2016

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May 24, 2011

End the Silence on LGBT Bullying

New evidence of the bullying crisis in our schools appears daily in news reports and blogs. For some students, verbal harassment, cyber-ostracism and physical abuse are as routine as turning in homework. That’s particularly true for students who are—or simply perceived to be—gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).

Topic

Bullying & Bias Gender & Sexual Identity

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Mary Church Terrell

In this lesson of the series, “Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice,” students will read and analyze text from “The Progress of Colored Women,” a speech made by Mary Church Terrell in 1898. Terrell was the first president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), an organization that was formed in 1896 from the merger of several smaller women’s clubs, and was active during the period of Jim Crow segregation in the South.

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6-8 9-12

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

History

May 11, 2012

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