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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Song of Myself -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Building Gender-Diverse and LGBTQ-Inclusive Schools -- Back to School Blues… and Pinks -- Creating a Gender-Expansive Classroom -- PART I: Elementary School -- 2 Elementary School Environment -- Freddy's Story -- Dannon's Story -- 3 Elementary School Curriculum -- Creating and Implementing Inclusive Curriculum -- Queer Moms and Schools -- 4 Elementary School Pedagogy -- From Bystander to Ally: Nico's Gender Journey -- And Then Came Tango: The Play That 'Couldn't Tour' -- PART II: Middle School -- 5 Middle School Environment -- Speaking Up: School Board Meeting -- The Emotional Experience of LGBTQ Middle Schoolers -- 6 Middle School Curriculum -- Now who can tell me what transgender means? This one's a little tricky -- Books Are Like Onions: Gender and Children's Literature -- 7 Middle School Pedagogy -- Rainbow Warriors -- Atlas of a Northeastern Trans/Queer Educator: Or How We Must Acknowledge the Strength of LGBTQ Students -- PART III: High School -- 8 High School Environment -- Teacher of the Year -- Becoming Johanna -- LGBTQIA in High School: Brave Students and Brave Spaces -- 9 High School Curriculum -- A Silent, Safe Haven in Drama -- They Need More than Gaga -- 10 High School Pedagogy -- (Trans)forming Education: How Transgender Youth Are Leading the School Justice Movement -- Sustaining Queer Activism across Time as Teachers: Changing Pathways in Working toward Queer Friendly Schools -- The Story I Tell -- PART IV: Higher Education -- 11 Universities and Teacher Education -- Gender Representations in a Mathematics Teacher Education Class -- Passing, Privilege, and Preservice Teacher Preparation: Queering the Conversation.
Small Shifts, Big Changes: LGBTQ-Inclusive Professional Development for Elementary Educators -- Afterword -- Contributor Biographies -- Appendices -- A: Important Gender, Sexuality, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer (LGBTQ) Definitions -- B: Anti-Bias Learning Student Objectives -- C: Instead of… Try These Classroom Practices -- D: Suggested Talking Points: What to Say in Difficult Conversations on Gender, Family, Race/Ethnicity, Language, Immigration -- E: LGBTQ and Gender Diversity Inclusion Resources for Families and K-12 Schools -- F: Gender Spectrum's Gender Inclusive Schools Framework -- G: Resolution in Support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning Student Life at California State University, Fullerton -- Index.