Resources for Teachers
Websites and online articles
aMaze: Provides a literature-based diversity education curriculum for use in schools, child care centers, and places of worship.
Gay-Straight Alliance Network : Over 400 GSAs from California.
GLSEN : The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network has information for teachers and students to help make schools safe for all students. They started the first GSA.
NEA: Safe Schools for Everyone : Statement of support for LGBT students from the National Education Association.
Safe Schools Coalition : An international public-private partnership for GLBT youth. Includes lesson plans.
Safe Space Program : a program for training allies in schools to be listeners when students are in need. This program has been used in colleges and businesses here is GLSEN’s version.
Teaching Tolerance : resources for teachers for ending bigotry of all kinds from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Books, print articles, and video
aMaze: Provides a literature-based diversity education curriculum for use in schools, child care centers, and places of worship.
Campos, David. Understanding gay and lesbian youth :
lessons for straight school teachers, counselors, and administrators. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2005. ISBN: 1578862671
Chasnoff, Debra “Gay Parents Do Exist: Letting the Rabbit Out of the Hat. Social Education, May/Jun2005 Supplement, pM2-M3.
COLAGE Youth Leadership and Action Program. In My Shoes : the Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents. Frameline, 2006. Video, 31 mins. Five young people, ages 12 to 17, talk about their homes and stress that love and respect make a family.
Holmes, Sarah E. and Sean Cahill. “School Experiences of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth.” Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues In Education, 2004, Vol. 1 Issue 3, p53-66, 12p. Discusses experiences of LGBT students, both black and white, and children of LGBT parents, and how resilient each group is.
Letts, William J and James T Sears. Queering elementary education : advancing the dialogue about sexualities and schooling. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. ISBN: 0847693686
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