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Gay-straight Alliances: A Handbook for Students, Educators, and Parents | 
| Author: Ian K Macgillivray
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
Buy New: $12.95
Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 112
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 6 x 0.3
ISBN: 156023685X
Dewey Decimal Number: 373.182664
EAN: 9781560236856
ASIN: 156023685X
Publication Date: May 30, 2007
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Product Description
A step by step guide to the school club that provides a safe place for LGBT and straight kids A Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) provides a safe place for students to discuss issues, meet others, and get support from those who care. Gay-Straight Alliances: A Handbook for Students, Educators, and Parents explains exactly how to begin this important type of school club that helps build positive relationships and promotes knowledge and tolerance. This guide tells students what it takes to start a GSA at their school, teachers how best to work with GSAs, and helps principals and superintendents to understand the applicable laws. Parents who read this book can discover for themselves just how positive an influence the GSA may be in their child's life. Beginning a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) takes courage as well as the support of educators and parents. Gay-Straight Alliances: A Handbook for Students, Educators, and Parents discusses all aspects of this type of school club, including the issues and challenges students will face when forming it. Teachers are given helpful perspectives on how to meet the inevitable concerns of parents and public officials and how to be an effective advisor. Principals and school officials are given an overview of the federal laws and the responsibility of schools to adhere to them. The book includes appendixes with helpful resources on sexual orientation and gender identity development, LGBT issues and schools, and the 1984 Federal Equal Access Act. Topics in Gay-Straight Alliances: A Handbook for Students, Educators, and Parents include: Starting a GSA in ten steps
How teachers and counselors can work with GSAs
Including transgender students
First Amendment rights
1984 Federal Equal Access Act
Title IX
A review of federal guidelines for religious expression in public schools
School anti-harassment policies
Understanding the opposition-with strategies for working with them
Working with parents
Common misconceptions about GSAs Gay-Straight Alliances: A Handbook for Students, Educators, and Parents is a valuable guide for students wanting to start a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) at their school, for teachers on how to best work with GSAs, for principals and superintendents on GSAs and the law, and for parents who have children in schools with GSAs.
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Looking at the Issues June 17, 2007
Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
MacGillivray, Ian K., PhD. "Gay-Straight Alliances: A Handbook for Students, Educators, and Parents", The Haworth Press, 2007.
Looking at the Issues
Amos Lassen and Literary Pride
Now that people are coming-out at a younger age, it is important that they have a safe environment in which to do so. A "GSA" or gay-straight alliance gives students a safe place to discuss issues, meet others, and gain support from a caring group of people. This handbook tells us how to begin these groups and have them become an important part of school life. This, in turn, will build positive relationships as well as provide and promote knowledge and tolerance. Sometimes we have to be told what it takes to start such an alliance as well as how to find the teachers to work with it and likewise helps principals and superintendents to understand the proper laws that apply to them. The book also will help parents discover how important groups like this are and how much they influence the life of a child.
The timing for this book is perfect and Macgillivray draws on the proper research, both empirical and legal as well as personal experience in order to give us a handbook which is so badly needed. It is full of information and ideas as well as resources and advice. Here is a book that belongs in every school today.
We must have safety for GLBT students as well as help them to improve understanding of the issues that face them daily. Just as we need advocates for the rights of all students, we need a place where they can feel at home with others like them and care for them. An alliance of this sort has much to offer the diversity of the population which we have today. Here is a valuable tool which can make schools safe regardless of the kind of school and its district and location.
The youth of today is quick to take on roles of leadership in transforming both the culture and climate of their schools and have an active voice in decisions--unlike when I was a student. They can help to eradicate the biases that pervade among and against our GLBT youth.
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