Gay Straight Alliances

Author : Ian K. Macgillivray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317712527

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Gay-Straight Alliances by Ian K. Macgillivray Pdf

A step by step guide to the school club that provides a safe place for LGBT and straight kids A Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) provides a safe place for students to discuss issues, meet others, and get support from those who care. Gay-Straight Alliances: A Handbook for Students, Educators, and Parents explains exactly how to begin this important type of school club that helps build positive relationships and promotes knowledge and tolerance. This guide tells students what it takes to start a GSA at their school, teachers how best to work with GSAs, and helps principals and superintendents to understand the applicable laws. Parents who read this book can discover for themselves just how positive an influence the GSA may be in their child’s life. Beginning a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) takes courage as well as the support of educators and parents. Gay-Straight Alliances: A Handbook for Students, Educators, and Parents discusses all aspects of this type of school club, including the issues and challenges students will face when forming it. Teachers are given helpful perspectives on how to meet the inevitable concerns of parents and public officials and how to be an effective advisor. Principals and school officials are given an overview of the federal laws and the responsibility of schools to adhere to them. The book includes appendixes with helpful resources on sexual orientation and gender identity development, LGBT issues and schools, and the 1984 Federal Equal Access Act. Topics in Gay-Straight Alliances: A Handbook for Students, Educators, and Parents include: starting a GSA in ten steps how teachers and counselors can work with GSAs including transgender students First Amendment rights 1984 Federal Equal Access Act Title IX a review of federal guidelines for religious expression in public schools school anti-harassment policies understanding the opposition-with strategies for working with them working with parents common misconceptions about GSAs Gay-Straight Alliances: A Handbook for Students, Educators, and Parents is a valuable guide for students wanting to start a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) at their school, for teachers on how to best work with GSAs, for principals and superintendents on GSAs and the law, and for parents who have children in schools with GSAs.

Author : Cris Mayo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137595294

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Gay-Straight Alliances and Associations among Youth in Schools by Cris Mayo Pdf

This book examines the formation of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs)—formal and informal—in public schools. These associations provide us with a way to think about intersectionality and tense encounters as spaces of possibility for new kinds of action, new kinds of learning, and newly emergent subjectivities. While such groups are not without problems, they enable a consideration of desire for connection across sexualities, genders, races, and knowledge. By examining subjectivity as a process of negotiation across and within differences in a particular institutional context, the traces of exclusions and gaps in these processes of identification become evident. New formations bear the imprint of exclusions that precede them but also work to fracture divisions, to push at intersections among subject positions, and explore desires for connection and change.

Author : Seymour Bernard Sarason
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 1566399807

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The Skeptical Visionary by Seymour Bernard Sarason Pdf

Seymour Sarason, in the words of Carl Glickman, is "one of America's seminal thinkers about public education." For over four decades his has been a voice of much-needed skepticism about our plans for school reform, teacher training, and educational psychology. Now, for the first time, Sarason's essential writings on these and other issues are collected together, offering student and researcher alike with the range, depth, and originality of Sarason's contributions to American thinking on schooling. As we go from debate to debate on issues such as school choice, charter schools, inclusive education, national standards, and other problems that seem to drag on without solution, Sarason's critical stance on the folly of many of our attempts to fix schools has always had at the center a concern for the main players in our educational institutions: the students, the teachers and the parents. Any plans that cannot account for their well-being are doomed to failure. And in the face of such failure, the clarity of Sarason's vision for real educational success is a much-needed antidote to much of the rhetoric that currently passes for substantial debate. A wide-ranging and comprehensive selection of Sarason's most significant writings,The Skeptical Visionaryshould find a prized space on any student's or teacher's bookshelf. Author note:Robert Friedis Associate Professor in the School of Education at Northeastern University, and is the author ofThe Passionate Teacher: A Practical GuideandThe Passionate Learner: How Teachers and Parents Can Help Children Reclaim the Joy of Discovery.Seymour Sarasonis Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. He is the author of over forty books and is considered to be one of the most significant researchers in education and educational psychology in the country.

Author : Melinda Miceli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415950916

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Standing Out, Standing Together by Melinda Miceli Pdf

Standing Out, Standing Together documents the emergence of gay straight alliances in public schools across America - from factors that have contributed to the relatively rapid spread of GSA to those that stirred controversy and posed roadblocks.

Author : Melinda Miceli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136079382

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Standing Out, Standing Together by Melinda Miceli Pdf

Just a decade ago, requests by students to establish groups to support gay and lesbian students were rare and generally met with shock and confusion by school administrators and local communities. Today there are more than 1600 gay straight alliances (GSAs) across the country. Standing Out, Standing Together documents the emergence of gay straight alliances in public schools across America - from factors that have contributed to the relatively rapid spread of GSA to those that stirred controversy and posed roadblocks. Using over 10 years of interviews with students, teachers, administrators and political activists; case studies; and local and national media reports, Miceli explores the personal and political stakes involved in the battles over GSAs. Although the book acknowledges and documents the harassment, abuse and problems suffered by many gay, lesbian, transgendered, and bisexual students, its primary focus is on these students as political activists, rather than as passive victims, making it a unique contribution to sociologists, educators, political activists and LGBTreaders alike.

Author : Kristina Lyn Heitkamp
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508174264

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Gay-Straight Alliances by Kristina Lyn Heitkamp Pdf

A 2016 Vanderbilt University study reported that LGBTQ+ students in schools with a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) were 52 percent less likely to hear homophobic remarks and experience bullying in school. This title provides the tools and resources to organize a GSA and to become a proactive leader in a community. Also included in the guide are educational activities, tips for being a good ally to LGBTQ+ people of color, and a Myths & Facts section that debunks common assumptions about Gay-Straight Alliances. The comprehensive text is a valuable guide for LGBTQ+ youth and allies.

Author : Kristina Lyn Heitkamp
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508174271

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Gay-Straight Alliances by Kristina Lyn Heitkamp Pdf

A 2016 Vanderbilt University study reported that LGBTQ+ students in schools with a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) were 52 percent less likely to hear homophobic remarks and experience bullying in school. This title provides the tools and resources to organize a GSA and to become a proactive leader in a community. Also included in the guide are educational activities, tips for being a good ally to LGBTQ+ people of color, and a Myths & Facts section that debunks common assumptions about Gay-Straight Alliances. The comprehensive text is a valuable guide for LGBTQ+ youth and allies.

Author : Peter DeWitt
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452274300

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Dignity for All by Peter DeWitt Pdf

All students deserve a safe, respectful school environment Students who identify as lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, or transgendered are susceptible to dropping out of school. This book provides professional development ideas and real-life vignettes that will help educational leaders foster a more caring school culture not only for LGBT students, but for all students. Peter DeWitt provides specific strategies for school leaders that include: Implementing a student code of conduct and school board policies to safeguard students Helping staff members recognize and respond to overt and covert LGBT issues Ways to include appropriate LGBT topics in the curriculum Supporting Gay-Straight Alliances (GSA) in middle and high school settings

Author : Tonya D. Callaghan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781487522674

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Homophobia in the Hallways by Tonya D. Callaghan Pdf

In Homophobia in the Hallways, Tonya D. Callaghan interrogates institutionalized homophobia and transphobia in the publicly-funded Catholic school systems of Ontario and Alberta.

Author : Michael Sadowski
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612509440

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Safe Is Not Enough by Michael Sadowski Pdf

Safe Is Not Enough illustrates how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities. Using examples from classrooms, schools, and districts across the country, Michael Sadowski identifies emerging practices such as creating an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum; fostering a whole-school climate that is supportive of LGBTQ students; providing adults who can act as mentors and role models; and initiating effective family and community outreach programs. While progress on LGBTQ issues in schools remains slow, in many parts of the country schools have begun making strides toward becoming safer, more welcoming places for LGBTQ students. Schools typically achieve this by revising antibullying policies and establishing GSAs (gay-straight student alliances). But it takes more than a deficit-based approach for schools to become places where LGBTQ students can fulfill their potential. In Safe Is Not Enough, Michael Sadowski highlights how educators can make their schools more supportive of LGBTQ students’ positive development and academic success.

Author : Jeffrey Wayne Sweat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Gay-straight alliances in schools
ISBN : UCAL:X68968

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Crossing Boundaries by Jeffrey Wayne Sweat Pdf

Author : Niels Teunis,Gilbert H. Herdt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520939141

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Sexual Inequalities and Social Justice by Niels Teunis,Gilbert H. Herdt Pdf

This pioneering collection of ten ethnographically rich essays signals the emergence of a new paradigm of social analysis committed to understanding and analyzing social oppression in the context of sexuality and gender. The contributors, an interdisciplinary group of social scientists representing anthropology, sociology, public health, and psychology, illuminate the role of sexuality in producing and reproducing inequality, difference, and structural violence among a range of populations in various geographic, historical, and cultural arenas. In particular, the essays consider racial minorities including Hispanics, Koreans, and African Americans; discuss disabled people; examine issues including substance abuse, sexual coercion, and HIV/AIDS; and delve into other topics including religion and politics. Rather than emphasizing sexuality as an individual trait, the essays view it as a social phenomenon, focusing in particular on cultural meaning and real-world processes of inequality such as racism and homophobia. The authors address the complex and challenging question of how the research under discussion here can make a real contribution to the struggle for social justice.

Author : Kristopher Wells,Canadian Teachers' Federation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Gay-straight alliances in schools
ISBN : 0889893551

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Gay-straight Student Alliance Handbook by Kristopher Wells,Canadian Teachers' Federation Pdf

Author : Dan Woog
Publisher : Alyson Publications
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555834914

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Friends & Family by Dan Woog Pdf

Presents the personal stories of friends and family members of lesbians and gay men who have joined the battle for gay and lesbian equality.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Gay students
ISBN : CORNELL:31924074266911

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Gay/straight Alliances by Anonim Pdf