Session Information
2012 NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo
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"That's So Gay": Reviewing Language and Teaching Tolerance
Track : November 10, 2012
Program Code: 240588
Date: Saturday, November 10, 2012
Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM  EST
Location: Georgia World Congress Center B407
SPEAKER (S):
Steven Shuman, Senior Training and Technical Assistance Associate, Education Development Center
Sharon Davisson, Pacific Oaks College
Brian Silviera, Pacific Primary School
Description
Using a CEASE-adopted format of facilitating expertise among participants, this session will use the stories of two experienced ECE professionals and the newly released 13-minute film "What Do You Know? Six-to Twelve-Year-Olds Talk about Gays and Lesbians" to stimulate three separate focused discussions among conferees. This session builds on the 2011 session co-sponsored by CEASE and the LGBT Interest Forum "How Can Preschools Help Before Bullying Begins Towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT)". In 2011 participants became empowered to begin to have what they perceived as difficult conversations with children, colleagues, and families. This year the intention is to provide additional strategies and activities to make those conversations easier and to integrate proactive anti-bias activities into the classroom. Tools from the Parents Services Project, Southern Poverty Law Center, Women's Equality Resource Center, and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Welcoming Schools program will be introduced. The HRC-produced film features students from Massachusetts and Alabama discussing what they know about gay men and lesbians, what they hear at school, and what they'd like teachers to do. The 3 discussion topics will be "Identifying Bias"; "Confronting Bias"; and "Teaching Anti-bias".


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