Creating Inclusive Curriculum

Why have an inclusive curriculum?

• Strongest predictors of students' feeling of safety at school (teaching empathy, kindness)
• Benefits all students; "windows and mirrors"-- Rudine Sims Bishop
• GSA is great but not the only indicator of inclusive climate @ school

Inclusive curriculum problems

• 2sLGBTQ topics restricted--how do we talk about gender/sexuality with children when it's seen as taboo?

Quick tips!

• Integrate queer/trans lives in the day-to-day (rather than tokenize)
• Subtel integration--bring up individuals without in-depth topic discussion
• Overt-- openly talk about issues of sexuality and gender

Example: James Baldwin

-Discuss his contemporaries (MLK, give context); he was also queer (mentioning it)

-I Am Not Your Negro

-"Go the Way Your Blood Beats"-- interviews about sexuality and the movement for Black lives

ELA Recs:

-Emily Dickenson, Tennessee Williams, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, "The Color Purple," "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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