Educators- How are you using this teachable moment about the 2020 elections in your classroom?

Next Tuesday, November 10th 6-6:40 pm EST 🟣 We’ll gather to create connection, support, and provide the opportunity for you to connect to other LGBTQ+ supportive educators across the country to discuss the election and its impact in your schools: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Next week's C&C features Becca Mui of GLSEN Education discussing what it looks like for K–12 teachers to support LGBTQ+ identity in the classroom through policies, practices, and curriculum. Register now: bit.ly/34Cuu3J #curriculum #LGBTQIA #Lgbtq_youth

Happy Native American Heritage Month! Native LGBTQ students have greater psychological well-being when they can identify supportive staff at their school. Read more about supporting this population of youth in our recent research report, at glsen.org/native

GLSEN GLSEN Education Important discussion about LGBTQ+ students with disabilities

"When it comes to supporting trans and nonbinary youth, we must commit to allowing students to be their full selves in our presence, because self-expression is a developmental requirement for mental health"💙🏳️‍⚧️ teachforamerica.org/stories/7-non-…

Join us for a webinar with Kognito and the County of Santa Clara Office of LGBTQ Affairs for a discussion about the status of LGBTQ students and strategies schools can consider to better support LGBTQ youth: go.kognito.com/webinar-Suppor…

"In a time when discomfort and pain pervade the lives of our students and society at large, we have to remember teaching as a revolutionary act, as work that we do to help students evoke change." tolerance.org/magazine/pande…

Becca Mui of GLSEN Education shared resources, research, and Instagram accounts for educators to investigate in their work to create inclusive curriculum and environments for LGBTQ+ students during a recent C&C. Begin exploring here: bit.ly/3ajsRer #LGBTQIA #curriculum

Most LGBTQ+ students (59.5%) indicate that school staff never intervene in biased remarks about gender expression. Nearly half (46.6%) say staff never intervene in homophobic remarks. This week, commit to kindness and put an end to name-calling, at glsen.org/nncw

Due to technical difficulties, we’re excited to finally present our first StoryTime, Magination Press’s “Lulu the One and Only” by @lkmawhinney. Watch Lynette read her powerful story and look out for our activity soon! youtube.com/watch?v=QyyPmM…

Check out our activity below so that your students can make their own Power Phrases! glsen.org/activity/lulu-…

At noon, we're answering more audience questions from last week's #RaceAndEducation webinar on racism and gender identity and expression. Join us to hear more from Sophia Arredondo of GLSEN Education, Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen of Advocates for Trans Equality, and CherrahGiles of @NIWRC.