T* Is for Thriving

RESOURCES

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T* Is for Thriving: Blueprints for Affirming Trans* and Gender Creative Lives and Learning in Schools

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Worksheets and Handouts

Chapter 1: Exploring and Reclaiming Home in Our Bodies

• 15-Minute Mindfulness Body Scan

Chapter 2: Brain Chemicals and Kindness

• Bucket Example

• Kindness Graph Example

Chapter 4: Annie's Plaid Shirt

• Annie's Plaid Shirt Digital Book

• My Perfect Outfit

Chapter 7: Two-Spirit People and the Impact of Colonialism in California

• Appreciation Art

• Government Letter

• Informative Podcast

• Appreciation Poem / Song

• Joyas and Missionaries

Chapter 8: Female Husbands

• Female Husbands

Chapter 9: Queering Counter-Narratives

• Analyzing Primary Sources (Blank)

• Analyzing Primary Sources (Teacher Guide)

• Primary Source Examples

• Transgender History Knowledge Check

• Wow, Worry, Wonder Rubric

Chapter 11: 2SLGBTQIA+ Community Centers: A Beacon of Hope

• 2SLGBTQIA+ Community Centers - A History

• Defining Equity and Equitable Access

• Intersectional Equity

• Shrinking Budgets and Access, Part 1

• Shrinking Budgets and Access, Part 2

• Student Strategies and Struggles

• Taking Action

Teaching Routines, Scaffolds, and Tools (Appendix B)

Analyzing Primary Sources

• Blank Guide https://drive.google.com/file/d/1byZAkWkxE6ZmYl4zYAXRgDzXk8XZ_e5U/view?usp=drive_link

• Teacher’s Guide https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bpbpE8e8_0VrN3QOUigJIPaa5MBK913D/view?usp=drive_link

Body Scan Exercises

• Ray Lewey https://insighttimer.com/raylewey/guided-meditations/trans-embodiment-coming-home-to-ourselves

• Mindful Schools https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iKY05ReW0ru5qvxVG1vVmWNxrljRs0Bv/view?usp=drive_link

• Vanessa Marrufo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0f9wa2SUX0

• Alli Simon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qHC1-KCgIM

Box Breathing

• Conscious Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RbW2LtdFs

• Headspace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7uQXDkxEtM

Chunk and Chew

• https://leadinglearningmatters.com/chunk-chew-giving-learners-processing-time/

Cooperative Learning Strategies

• https://sites.google.com/a/emints.org/cooperative-learning-strategies/page2

Creating a “Container” for Courage and Safety

• https://www.mindfulschools.org/inspiration/creating-a-safe-container-student-community-agreements/

• https://www.edutopia.org/blog/build-an-anti-racist-classroom-joshua-block

Exit Ticket

• https://www.structural-learning.com/post/exit-tickets#:~:text=What%20are%20Exit%20Tickets%3F,they%20are%20teaching%20in%20class

Five Senses Brainstorm

• http://readysetbrainstorm.weebly.com/the-five-senses.html

Gallery Walk

• https://www.edutopia.org/blog/enliven-class-discussion-with-gallery-walks-rebecca-alber

• https://youtu.be/XH63YrzduOM

Group Work

• https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/catalogs/tip-sheets/implementing-group-work-classroom

“I Am” Poem

• https://www.readwritethink.org/sites/default/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson391/I-am-poem.pdf

Identity Wheels

• Personal Identity Wheel https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/inclusive-teaching/personal-identity-wheel/

• Social Identity Wheel https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/inclusive-teaching/social-identity-wheel/

Jamboard

• http://jamboard.google.com/

Jigsaw Method

• https://youtu.be/euhtXUgBEts

• See also Aronson, E., Stephan, C., Sikes, J., Blaney, N., & Snapp, M. (1978). The jigsaw classroom. Sage.

Journaling

• https://journey.cloud/reflective-journal

Literature Circle

• https://www.lauracandler.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/circle.pdf

Monitoring Chart

• https://resources.corwin.com/5practices-highschool/student-resources/charts-and-templates

Notice and Wonder

• https://mathforall.edc.org/routines-for-mathematical-thinking-engagement/

Padlet

• https://padlet.help/l/en/article/f5of9fy9lc-how-do-i-create-a-padlet

Quick Write (and other short writing practices)

• https://www.edutopia.org/article/power-short-writing-assignments

See, Think, Wonder

• https://pz.harvard.edu/resources/see-think-wonder

Shoulder Partners

• https://sites.google.com/a/emints.org/cooperative-learning-strategies/shoulder-partner-discussion

Smith and Stein’s Five Practices

• Resource 1 https://www.sfusdmath.org/5-practices-for-orchestrating-productive-math-discussions.html

• Resource 2 https://www.utdanacenter.org/sites/default/files/2019-07/Greenlee_CAMT_Teaching_Elementary_Students.pdf

Strategies and Struggles

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FJDoUHPzkBLZpncXudgRVGddJhFNmd7t/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=100454804064360656722&rtpof=true&sd=true

Think Pair Share

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mig4olzUy4M

Wheel of Power/Privilege

• https://www.instagram.com/p/CEFiUShhpUT/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

  • https://www.flickr.com/photos/sylviaduckworth/50500299716/

Wow, Worry, Wonder Rubric

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k-JvM9Oiv5SaF45Whqd4MZAf7E9ER3Tr/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=100454804064360656722&rtpof=true&sd=true

Additional Linked Resources

Chapter 1: Exploring and Reclaiming Home in Our Bodies

• Michael Roberson on the Ballroom Freedom School (video)

• Trans Housing Coalition (website)

• House of Tulip (website)

• My Sistah’s House (website)

• Systemic Inequality: Displacement, Exclusion, Segregation (article)

• Civil Rights in America: Racial Discrimination in Housing (article)

• NCTE - Housing and Homelessness (article) 

• The Cost of Identity: Twiggy Garçon on LGBTQ+ youth homelessness, house-ballroom, and working on ‘Pose’ (article)

• From Pain Comes Strength: Families, Ballroom, and Resistance (article)

• In Boston, ballroom culture offers freedom for queer and trans POC (article)

• Ballroom Freedom School (webpage)

Chapter 2: Brain Chemicals and Kindness

• The “Happy” music video by Pharrell Williams (video)

• Julián is a Mermaid read-aloud of the book (video) 

Chapter 3: Who Are You? A Black Queer Journey to Selfhood and Community

• My Name is Pauli Murray (documentary video)

• My Name is Pauli Murray: New Film on Black Queer Legal Pioneer Who Inspired RBG & Thurgood Marshall (video profile)

• Activism: Marsha P. Johnson (video profile)

Chapter 5: Be You!

• Toilets, bowties, gender and me | Audrey Mason-Hyde | TEDx Adelaide (video)

• How to Support Transgender Students | GLSEN (video)

• How to Build Safe & Inclusive Schools for Trans*+ & Gender-Creative Youth (video)

• GLSEN Ready Set Respect (toolkit with lessons)

• Talking to Young Children About Gender | Gender Spectrum (flier)

• Gender & Sexual Identity | Learning for Justice (resource collection)

• Expressing Myself. My Way (video)

• “Fitting in” vs. “Belonging” (video)

• Empathy vs. Sympathy (video)

• Empathy vs. Compassion (video)

Chapter 7: Two-Spirit People and the Impact of Colonialism in California

• Range of Gender Identities (video)

• What Does "Two-Spirit" Mean? (video)

• “Two-Spirit” by The Indian Health Service (article)

• Two Spirit People in Native American Cultures (podcast episode)

• Two Spirit (podcast episode)

• 5 Two-Spirit Heroes Who Paved the Way for Today's Native LGBTQ+ Community (article)

• Never Not Been a Part of Me (video)

Chapter 8: Female Husbands

• Who Were History’s ‘Female Husbands?’ (podcast episode)

Chapter 10: Yassifying Math with "The Hips on the Drag Queen"

• Lil Miss Hot Mess’ read aloud (video)

Chapter 11: 2SLGBTQIA+ Community Centers: A Beacon of Hope

• CASEL Five Core SEL Competencies 

• Video 1: What is the Connection between SEL & Mathematics?

• Video 2: What is Transformative SEL? 

• Video 3: What Might Transformative SEL Look Like in Mathematics? 

• Video 4: How to Use Desmos to Create a Map of 2SLGBTQIA+ Community Centers

• Video 5: How Is Transformative SEL Centered in the Lesson?

• Talking about LGBTQ+ identity: A guide for PK-16 educators