LGBTQIA+ Histories, Inclusive Language, Safe Schools & Classrooms

  

 Week 11

 

Tenth Assignment due Tuesday, April 22 by 4 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

Class Opener:  Who invented/created/designed the Rainbow Flag?

 

 Rainbow Flag

1. Before learning its history, why do you think the Gay Pride flag is a rainbow?

 

 

In TEAMS Week 1 assignment we asked everyone,  

"Have you thought about inventing something new or changing something?"

 

Everything we see, purchase, use is a HUMAN creation of someone's idea(s).

 

Most of us do not know who created the flag, when or why. Here's the story of its history and creator. 

 

 

VIEW   

Brief video needs 30-60 seconds to appear on screen.  WAIT FOR IT TO OPEN.

 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/pride-rainbow-flag-design-history/index.html 

 

READ 

 or listen to hear the voice of Gilbert Baker in this NPR short audio.

https://www.npr.org/2017/06/21/533844029/pride-events-honor-memory-of-gilbert-baker-and-his-rainbow-flag

 

 

2. Bullet list 6 facts you learned from viewing the video AND reading the interview, or hearing Gilbert Baker speak, about the RAINBOW FLAG he designed.

 

 

Workshop 1: Impacts of Bullying and Anti-LGBTQIA Bias

 

3. WHAT information in THE LIST BELOW from the 2021 Survey reminds you of what did or might have occurred to kids in your high school?

 

Information from the 2021 Executive Report National School Climate Survey with data and infographics -- YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ THE SURVEY, ONLY THE ITEMS LISTED HERE:

 

• 97% of students heard "gay" used in a negative way at school; 93.7% reported feeling distressed by the use of that language.

 

• 58% reported hearing homophobic remarks from teachers or other school staff;

 

• 72% reported hearing negative remarks about their gender expression from teachers or other school staff.

 

• 32.2% missed at least one day of school in the past month because they felt unsafe or uncomfortable at school.

 

•  76.1% experienced in-person verbal harassment 

 

• 31.2% were physically harassed (e.g., pushed or shoved) in the past year based on based on their sexual orientation, gender expression, or gender 

 

• Students who experienced higher levels of victimization in school because of sexual orientation or gender expression were more than twice as likely to report they did not intend to pursue post-secondary education.

 

 

 

  Hostile Hallways: Sexual Harassment

READ four recommendations under 'What can be done' at the end of this article.

 

Please go directly to the bottom of the page to those 4 points if you find the information prior to the recommendations sensitive to read.

 

4. Rewrite in kid friendly language THE FOUR RECOMMENDATIONS in Hostile Hallways: Sexual Harassment.

 

How would YOU explain to middle and high school students these ideas to stop sexual harassment and provide a safe school environment?

5. Were any of these FOUR recommendations publicly stated in schools you attended before college?

 

 

READ and VIEW

  Read underneath the video FAIR EDUCATION ACT FAQs

 

 View video to learn about California's FAIR Education Act

The Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act,

 

Senate Bill 48 in California, updates prior laws requiring representation in public school learning resources of diverse populations' contributions to the development of the United States and the state of California. “Pacific Islanders, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, and persons with disabilities” are included in this bill.

6. Compose a haiku or a tweet that clearly and briefly explains the purpose of California's FAIR Education Act that we learn about in the video.

You do not need to post the tweet.

7. In a sentence or two, summarize the information in 'What Does the Law Say, Exactly?

 (Scroll below the video to FAIR Education Act FAQs.) 

 

  

 

Workshop 2: How Do We Make A Person's Accomplishments KNOWN?

 

 

 

 

In TEAMS Whose History/Whose Science class, we learned of WOMEN who MADE THE FUTURE

are not mentioned in math, science, history, English, engineering, medicine, art and STEM textbooks or classes for K-12 students.

 

LACK of knowledge about people in the LGBTQIA community, people who shaped history! Their names and accomplishments ought to be known by everyone.

 

 

 

 

A Canva comic created by former TEAMS site coordinator, Tyler Volpe-Knock, introduces Barbara Gittings, known as the Mother of Gay Rights.

 

 

 

Create/design a Canva poster, compose poems with pictures, make a comic or a Frayer Model or something else you choose THAT IS NEW TO YOU. If you have hand drawn other posters, use an online tool.

 

We will add your creation to pages in Bob's history wiki and credit you ad the designer.

Log the time designing and making your information as self-tutoring OR tutoring others hours, whichever category you wish.

 

8. Select ONE PERSON from the live links below for your creative design project.

   Describe 6 aspects of the person's life accomplishments. Insert your design into your learning log or email it.

                         

Bayard Rustin

 

Langston Hughes

 

Alan Turing

 

Sally Ride

 

Harvey Milk

 

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

 

Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera

 

 

 

Big Idea Closer  ALL people contribute ideas, inventions and information to our lives

 

Women are athletes, scientists, inventors, researchers, explorers, creators and society changers and we should know their names and contributions to our lives.

 

LGBTQIA people are athletes, scientists, inventors, researchers, explorers, creators and society changers and we should know their names and contributions to our lives.

 

 

9. Where in your social media, readings, viewings, podcasts or streaming services, movies, TV, do you find information and resources that inform you about LGBTQIA individuals making new inventions, working in politics, designing, composing, creating and influencing our world today and in the future?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOT FOR THE ASSIGNMENT Resources for Additional Learning

 

March Madness Rotations Ticket

 

In Draft: LGBTQIA+ Histories & Pride Month Digital Choice Board

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQ6JIJ38EpA6306M-AeANG3axO5_9WZyhaYRet5vYJ8/edit

 

Harvey Milk resources

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/22/harvey-milk-day-gay-pioneer-san-francisco-assasination/

 

 

For Bob's Workshop

 Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972

 Rights of Transgender and NonBinary Students at School

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States? UCLA School of Law Williams Institute, June 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View, Analyze and Evaluate Public Service Announcements--PSAs

 

 

Public Service Announcements (PSAs), ORIGINALLY CREATED for use before and during WWII in the U.S. and the U.K., teach people! 

 USING humor or empathy PSAS connect VIEWERS to someone's feelings to understand a situation through OTHERS' eyes. 

 

PSAs are a way to  have students discuss roles and the possible choices when they are bullied or when they see others being bullied.

 

Choose 4 from these 8 to view and rank (EVALUATE) each one according to the criteria below. 

 

Explain your reasons for the ranking (evaluation).

 

As a teacher, tutor, leader:

 

• I would show this video to students because I think it will influence more inclusive, respectful behavior (A)

 

• I might show this video to students because I think it could influence more inclusive, respectful behavior (B)

 

• I would not show this video to students because I think it will not influence more inclusive, respectful behavior (C OR BELOW)

 

Create a chart or a display of information about the four videos you view: create this by hand or using any app or online device. Make the chart or display easy to understand your rankings of these videos and add comments explaining your reasons for your choices.

 

Your design will give you information about how you might ask students to design a chart or display if you did this ranking activity as a class experience.

 

It's Not Acceptable

 

Middle Schoolers Win International Award with Anti-Bullying Video

 

Bullying Jr: Burger King's Anti-Bullying Ad is an Eye-Opener

 

Hilary Duff and Wanda Sykes Videos from GLSEN and the Ad Council

 

Because of You and Honest Yearbook

 

How Challenging That's So Gay Made a School Safer

 

The Price of Silence

 

Mrs. Dudley's Class Presents "Bully-Free Zone"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEryAoLfnAA

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/899642706/a-new-documentary-shines-a-spotlight-on-the-lyricist-behind-the-disney-renaissan

 

 

 

https://www.them.us/story/high-school-students-staged-walk-out-support-bullied-gay-classmate?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=spotlight-nl&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=thematic_spotlight_101121_2&utm_medium=email&bxid=5cec28742ddf9c4e32e9458e&cndid=54286185&hasha=584826d872153cedb414ae6f28792847&hashb=ef19cb2da8746f29b44f0426c3e76291c54bb5c7&hashc=69e0ad5ffcf631a01822a1df5ae0f4ccb53a39c8a63ee626657580a0eebf49f1&esrc=None&sourcecode=thematic_spotlight&utm_term=Thematic_Spotlight

 

 New Site Collects Reports of Anti-Asian American Sentiment Amid Coronvirus Pandemic

 

https://www.google.com/doodles/sally-rides-64th-birthday 

 

2017 School Climate in Massachusetts 

Who Made the Rainbow Flag?

 

Go here to learn the history other Flags

• The American Flag
• Juneteenth Flag
• Women's Suffrage Flag
• Black Eagle Flag

 

Why Nike Has Ignited So Much Controversy by Using the Betsy Ross Flag?

 

Class 10 LGBTQIA Virtual Class 20.docx

 

 

Class 10 has an Opener, 2 Workshops with Questions to Answer and a Big Idea Closer   Workshop 1: The Impacts of Bullying and Anti-LGBTQIA Bias   Workshop 2: How Do We Make Known A Person's Accomplishments?   Big Idea Closer: ALL people contribute ideas, inventions and information to our lives   VIEW  the video explanation of the google doodle        Read  the text about the doodle.    https://www.google.com/doodles/sally-rides-64th-birthday  Bullet list 5-6 new facts you did not know before seeing the google doodle and viewing the video.     A new language for learning is what TEAMS teaches--interesting, interactive, mind capturing ways of learning.   Multimodal ways to learn? Playing games online or in person? Writing comics, poems, stories?  Drawing, illustrating, or making posters or Frayer models? Filming stop motion animations to illustrate math/story/writing? Paper airplane folding or juggling for math and physics or to open a tutoring session before doing what is school assigned?   Are any of these part of the tutoring /self-tutoring you are doing to assist learning? How might you use specific ones of these to enhance experiences tutoring others?      In the half hour workshop, divided into 15 min. blocks, students will explore topics pitched by site coordinators.   The first half of class offers people to learn about, the second half of class offers events to learn about. They are all live links here:   Events   The Lavender Scare The AIDS Epidemic in the US and the World LGBTQIA Civil Rights Movement   LGBTQ Court Cases The Stonewall Uprising Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Transgender Athletes   Individuals   Alan Turing, Computer Scientist and Cryptanalyst Harvey Milk, Gay Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin, Civil Rights and Gay Rights Activist Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, Transgender and GayCivil Rights Activists Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space  Walt Whitman, Bard of Democracy