Planet School: Building a Greener World
It’s not easy for teachers when students strike and urge governments to act on climate change. Depending on school policy, it can be hard for educators to know how to respond. ...
Social Justice
Talking To Young Students About George Floyd
I search, “How to talk to kids about police violence.” “Talking to children about racialized violence.” I know experts say children are never too young to talk about race, but ...
Uncomfortable Truths: What If Santa Claus Was Gay?
“What happens if a student writes or draws something that is gay?” This is a curious trepidation for me, but it’s usually quickly followed up with the real concern.
Women In and Out of the Closet
When the Canadian government updated the criminal code in 1954, it made a small but significant change to the law regarding gross indecency. It removed the phrase “male ...
Growing a Gender-Inclusive Biology Curriculum
Biology is the study of a diverse range of living things, and biology affirms all genders.
SOGI: Getting the Terminology Right
Gender fluid. Two-spirit. Trans. Cisgender. These are some of the terms students can use to describe themselves and where they are on the spectrum of sexual orientation and ...
The Inclusivity Challenge: Is Canada a Just Society?
Sure Will & Grace is back on TV, but our students are watching several LGBTQ+ characters on Netflix’s Riverdale and binge-watching RuPaul’s Drag Race. It seems many of your ...
LGBTQ+ Refugees in Canada
The persistence of violence against LGBTQ+ people in countries where homosexuality is legal remains worrisome and creates a refugee situation that is not that easy to prove.
Trying to Lay Low
It isn’t easy to teach the history of decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada. We interviewed three gay men who were there and remember what it was like.
Hunger Pangs: Food Insecurity in Schools
This past summer, the Wyoming Valley West School District in Pennsylvania sent home an alarming letter to parents. If they didn’t pay off their kids’ school lunch debt ...