The Power of Words
GLSEN's December 2003 National School Climate Survey, for example, revealed a direct link between at-school harassment and the declining grade-point averages and college aspirations of LGBTQ students.
"It's really simple: If you don't feel safe at school, you can't learn -- you're thinking about the next insult, the next throw against the locker," says Brian Juchems, program director for GSAs for Safe Schools. Based in Madison, the group provides leadership development and technical assistance to GSAs across south-central Wisconsin.
In June 2004, GLSEN surveyed state policies to determine how well states were protecting LGBTQ students from harassment. Arranged report card-style, the survey assigned each state a grade: 42 states received F's, and only two received an A.
Alarmingly, only eight states prohibited harassment based on sexual orientation, and seven states criminalized any positive mention of LGBTQ issues or people in the classroom.
Wisconsin's survey grade was a C; only five states scored higher.
Words that Reinforce Stereotypes Lesson Plan - Teaching Tolerance
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/web/power_of_words/pdf/power_words_lesson_5.pdf
"It's really simple: If you don't feel safe at school, you can't learn -- you're thinking about the next insult, the next throw against the locker," says Brian Juchems, program director for GSAs for Safe Schools. Based in Madison, the group provides leadership development and technical assistance to GSAs across south-central Wisconsin.
In June 2004, GLSEN surveyed state policies to determine how well states were protecting LGBTQ students from harassment. Arranged report card-style, the survey assigned each state a grade: 42 states received F's, and only two received an A.
Alarmingly, only eight states prohibited harassment based on sexual orientation, and seven states criminalized any positive mention of LGBTQ issues or people in the classroom.
Wisconsin's survey grade was a C; only five states scored higher.
Words that Reinforce Stereotypes Lesson Plan - Teaching Tolerance
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/web/power_of_words/pdf/power_words_lesson_5.pdf
Analysis of Pejoratives Lesson Plan
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/web/wfc/pdf/section_3/3_01_undrstnding_pejorative.pdf
Word Origins - Teaching Tolerance Lesson Plan
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?cid=657
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/web/wfc/pdf/section_3/3_01_undrstnding_pejorative.pdf
Word Origins - Teaching Tolerance Lesson Plan
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?cid=657
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