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Goals for time together

How will we create the conditions for each student to thrive?: A conversation about gender identity and sexual orientation May 14 and 16, 2013. Goals for time together. Create context Examine conditions necessary What each of us will do. Common commitment. Common commitment.

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Goals for time together

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  1. How will we create the conditions for each student to thrive?:A conversation about gender identity and sexual orientation May 14 and 16, 2013

  2. Goals for time together • Create context • Examine conditions necessary • What each of us will do

  3. Common commitment

  4. Common commitment

  5. Why are you here? • Why does this work matter?

  6. What the work calls for • Becoming attuned to the call of care • Ted Aoki

  7. Studying together • Gathering ourselves around • A complicated conversation William Pinar

  8. Deepening understanding • … art of conversation as the commitment to stay in the work of gaining understanding • David Smith

  9. Topic that lives in the world • The world is always there to contradict what we think about it. • Madeline Grumet

  10. Our Values/Ethos • CBE community:Each student, • able to thrive …

  11. Our Statutory Obligations

  12. Protected Grounds age; ancestry; sexual orientation;race; family status; marital status; gender identity; source of income; place of origin; colour; gender; physical disability; mental disability;religious beliefs

  13. Understanding diversity in the CBE The full range of uniqueness within humanity How we recognize and value uniqueness Being responsive

  14. Recent steps along the path • Trustee Inquiry • Board Development Session (March 2012) • Definition of Diversity • December 2012 Leadership Mtg • System Conversations • CBE / Outshine

  15. Three Reasons: Paying Attention • We must • Topic gaining momentum globally • It is who we say we are

  16. The Through Line • Everyone supports learning in the classroom • Places learning at the core of everyone’s work • Adjusting to the needs of our learners CBE Personalized Learning Resource Guide 2012

  17. Final report: www.egale.caResources:MyGSA.caCatherine Taylor, Ph.D.,Professor & Director of Academic Programs,Faculty of EducationUniversity of Winnipeg c.taylor@uwinnipeg.ca204-786-9893

  18. “LGBTQ” The matrix of compulsory heterosexuality Judith Butler Sex  Gender Expression  Sexual Orientation Male  Masculine  Feminine Females Female  Feminine  Masculine Males Catherine Taylor, Ph.D.,Faculty of EducationU. Winnipeg The Heterosexual Matrix

  19. Six Lessons • Schools are unsafe and disrespectful for LGBTQ students • Youth are being harassed and getting hurt • Diversity = at risk • Equal rights (except for you) • Homophobia is wide but not always deep • Most students are distressed by it Catherine Taylor, Ph.D.,Faculty of EducationU. Winnipeg Six Lessons Learned

  20. Homophobia Widespread But Not Always Deeply Rooted Not that hard to shift school culture. Even modest changes can produce significant improvements. Catherine Taylor, Ph.D.,Faculty of EducationU. Winnipeg Lesson Five: The Problem Is Wide But Not Deep

  21. Voices of Youth – Scenarios

  22. Responding to Scenarios • Learning environment? • Lived experience/consequences? • Role you could play? • What do you/we need to pay attention to and learn?

  23. Knowledge Building • Key insights

  24. Next Steps • Continue to pay attention within your context … what will you look for/think about/do? • Come to the next meeting with an artifact (e.g., image, talisman, story, object, poetry, music, video, audio, writing) that represents my learning.

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