Dear gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender teacher : letters of advice to help you find your way / edited by William DeJean (Inspiration unleashed) and Jeff Sapp (California State University, Dominguez Hills).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeJean, William, editor.

Sapp, Jeffrey Lynn, editor.

Series:

Educational leadership for social justice.

Educational leadership for social justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay teachers.

Lesbian teachers.

Bisexual teachers.

Trans teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages).

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2017.

Summary:

Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Teacher: Letters Of Advice To Help You Find Your Way is full of the voices of queer educators and calls for educational leaders to be allies in their social justice leadership roles. Queer professionals write personal letters to junior queer colleagues answering the general prompt, 'What have you learned as a queer educator that you believe is essential to the success of current or future gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered educators?' The responses are thoughtful, powerful, poignant, and direct.The collection of letters includes senior queer professionals, pre-service teachers who were currently in university courses at the very beginning of their careers, PreK-12 professionals at the beginning, middle, and end of their careers, administrators, counselors, teacher-educators at the university level, community educational leaders, lawyers, and heterosexual allies. There are early childhood teachers, elementary teachers, middle school and high school teachers representing nearly every content area, special education teachers, GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) leaders, school counselors, university professors of education across various fields of specialization, and activists. There are many races and ethnicities represented as well as eight countries. There are rural professionals and urban professionals. There are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered educators represented. This group of letters represents the intersectionality of queerness in all of its rich splendor.

Contents:

Series editor's preface / Jeffrey S. Brooks

Introduction and overall framework / Jeff Sapp and William Dejean

Part 1. Preservice credential candidates

Part 2. Pre-k-12 educators

Part 3. Counselors and mediators

Part 4. Higher education

Part 5. Allies, accomplices and coconspirators.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-68123-754-7