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5 Strategies for Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth in School

SHAPE America

LGBTQ+ Youth Need Teachers’ Support The most recent data from GLSEN’s National School Climate Survey illustrates why this work is so critical. of students reported hearing homophobic remarks from their teachers or other school staff, and 72.0% This is lifelong work. It is challenging, uncomfortable, and often difficult. respectively).

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Helpful Resources for Teaching Sex Education

Teen Health Mississippi

Sex education has the power to change a young person’s life for the better, but teaching it can be a daunting and loaded responsibility for educators. If you’re new to teaching sex education or thinking about adding it to your class schedule, there are lots of resources and trainings to lean on as you get comfortable in your role.

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Expanding LGBTQ Inclusion Within Sex Education

ASHA

For Sex Ed For All Month this May, I had a discussion with Human Rights Campaign Youth Ambassador Ash Silcott about their experience with sex education as a non-binary student to better understand challenges LGBTQ students face, and how sex ed can be improved to educate and help all young people.

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Top 5 Benefits of Technology in the Classroom For PE

PLT4M

In addition, we draw from PE teachers’ experiences and how they relate to the top 5 benefits of technology in the classroom. Over the course of the next century it was rapidly adopted in classrooms across America due to its ability to allow teachers to educate larger class sizes simultaneously. Let’s dive in! . Fair point.

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