Gender Diversity and LGBTQ Inclusion in K-12 Schools

Sharon Verner Chappell is Associate Professor, Elementary and Bilingual Education Department, California State University Fullerton, USA. Karyl E. Ketchum is Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies Department and Queer Studies Minor Program, California State University Fullerton, USA. Lisa Richardson is a recently retired Elementary School Teacher and School and Community Outreach Coodinator for South Orange County PFLAG, USA.

‘If you want to teach well, if you love your students, if you hope what you do in your classroom helps to shape a more just world, this book is for you. Rich with accessible resources, including guiding principles, up-to-the-minute definitions, poetry, personal essays, artwork, and links to online materials, as well as tips from dedicated, justice-seeking educators and care-takers, the text will be of use to everyone engaged in the critical work of nurturing young people. Powerful, intimate sketches of children navigating gender and sexuality at home and in their schools ground the chapters and confirm the need for diversity-celebratory activities, which the book helpfully provides. Modeling affirming perspectives and sharing practice-based examples of curriculums and policies aimed at building gender expansive schools and communities, Gender Diversity and LGBTQ Inclusion in K-12 Schools, is timely, and through your use, will also be transformative.’—Therese Quinn is the author of Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons (2012) and Flaunt It! Queers Organizing for Public Education and Justice (2009) and directs the Museum and Exhibition Studies graduate program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Building Gender -diverse and LGBTQ-Inclusive Schools Part I: Elementary School 2. Elementary School Environment 3. Elementary School Curriculum 4. Elementary School Pedagogy Part II: Middle School 5. Middle School Environment 6. Middle School Curriculum 7. Middle School Pedagogy Part III: High School 8. High School Environment 9. High School Curriculum 10. High School Pedagogy Part IV: Higher Education 11. Universities and Teacher Education Afterword Contributor Biographies Appendices A. Important Gender, Sexuality, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer (LGBTQ) Definitions B. Anti-Bias Learning Student Objectives C. Instead of…Try These Classroom Practices D. Suggested Talking Points: What to Say in Difficult Conversations on Gender, Family, Race/Ethnicity, Language, Immigration E. LGBTQ and Gender Diversity Inclusion Resources for Families and K-12 Schools F. Gender Inclusive Schools Framework G. Resolution in Support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning Student Life at California State University, Fullerton