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ERIC Number: ED568754
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Aug
Pages: 232
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 978-1-61250-943-3
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Safe Is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ Students
Sadowski, Michael
Harvard Education Press
"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. [Foreword written by Kevin Jennings.]
Harvard Education Press. 8 Story Street First Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138. Tel: 888-437-1437; Tel: 617-495-3432; Fax: 978-348-1233; e-mail: hepg@harvard.edu; Web site: http://hepg.org/hep-home/home
Publication Type: Books; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Middle Schools; Junior High Schools; Elementary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
Identifiers - Location: California (Los Angeles); Georgia; Hawaii; Indiana; Massachusetts; New York
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