Here are resources to share at staff meetings, union meetings, within your department or grade group meetings. Click Staff Meetings Calendar for a sample calendar for sharing resources with colleagues throughout the year.

Elementary:

Films:

Creating Gender Inclusive Schools, New Day Films (please email pride@vsb.bc.ca for login information) Film Discussion Guide

Creating Gender Inclusive Schools is one of four films in the Youth & Gender Media Project, which together demonstrate how to reach every member of a school community—students, teachers, parents and administrators—to help them create educational settings that welcome all young people, regardless of the where they fall on the spectrum of gender identity and expression.

What Can We Do? Bias, Bullying and Bystanders, Welcoming Schools Film Discussion Guide

The 12-minute training film What Can We Do? Bias, Bullying, and Bystanders spotlights experienced teachers engaging students with HRC Welcoming Schools lesson plans on bias, bullying and standing up for each other to create a more connected classroom community.

What do you Know? Welcoming Schools

What Do You Know? is an award winning 13-minute film produced by HRC Welcoming Schools for elementary school educators and parents/caregivers. The film features students from Alabama and Massachusetts discussing what they know about LGBTQ people, what they hear at school and how teachers can help. The students offer thoughtful, poignant commentary on their experiences in school with LGBTQ topics and show that students already know about and want teachers to discuss LGBTQ people and topics in the classroom with them.

Our Family: A Film about Family Diversity

In Our Family, children share stories about all kinds of families. Today’s children come from families living in one home or two, some are being raised by one mom or one dad, or they might have two parents/caregivers or live with grandparents or other family members. Others have parents/caregivers of different ethnic backgrounds, or who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. And some children are adopted or live in blended families. This short film is a collaboration between Our Family Coalition and Not In Our Town to encourage conversation about the many diverse family constellations, to give children the opportunity to see and appreciate their own families, and to be open and respectful to those who are different from them. Film Lesson Guide

Hand-outs:

Using-Gender-Inclusive-Language-with-Kids

Gender-Spectrum-12-Easy-Steps-on-the-Way-to-Gender-Inclusiveness

Be Prepared for Questions and Put-Downs about Gender [PDF]

Practicing answering questions related to gender or interrupting hurtful teasing based on gender will help you to respond more easily when the situation arises. Take the time to practice simple phrases. Discuss these ideas with students so that they also have simple responses to gender exclusion or put-downs.

“Are those both his parents?”

Websites:

SOGI 123

Welcoming Schools

VSB Policy and Guidelines

SOGI Policy and Regulations

VBEGuidelines:SupportforTrans:GNStudents

Secondary:

Films

Out in the Halls, a VSB film, made by VSB staff with interviews by VSB students in GSA clubs (please email pride@vsb.bc.ca for access)

Out in Schools films (please contact your GSA staff sponsor or school librarian for login information)

Websites

SOGI 123

GLSEN

VSB Policy and Guidelines 

SOGI Policy and Regulations

VBEGuidelines:SupportforTrans:GNStudents

For Counsellors

Family-Oriented Practice Guidance

A Practitioner’s Resource Guide: Helping Families to Support Their LGBT Children

written by Caitlin Ryan, PhD, ACSW

First practice guidelines for engaging diverse families to decrease their LGBT children’s risk for suicide, homelessness, HIV and other negative outcomes and to promote well-being, based on research and core principles from the Family Acceptance Project

Published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, HHS