Part
1: Building and Activating Your GSA or Similar Student Club (46
pages)
This resource provides step-by-step assistance for
students interested in forming a Gay-Straight Alliance and offers
activities that can help you organize your club.
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Part 2: Tips and Tools for Organizing an Action
Campaign (17 pages)
The activities in this section are meant to give you a
taste of what is known as Direct-Action Organizing. Learn the basics
of strategizing, creating a timeline, framing your messaging and
creating an action plan.
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Part 3: Strategies for Training Teachers (15 pages)
Your GSA can greatly improve the climate of your school
by giving teachers the tools they need to combat name-calling,
bullying and harassment. A training can also give students the
opportunity to present practical solutions – and a chance for teachers
to brainstorm ways to achieve these solutions.
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Part 4: Understanding Direct-Action Organizing (28 pages)
The activities in this section focus on Direct-Action
Organizing and are designed to help you apply those techniques and
strategies to your work as a student club.
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Part 5: Examining Power, Privilege and Oppression (18 pages)
Is anti-LGBT sentiment the only thing that hurts others
and contributes to making schools unsafe for many students? Are there
other ways that inequalities in society cause harmful situations for
students? In this section you will explore individual identities and
power and privilege and learn how your GSA can work in an
anti-oppression framework.
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Part 6: Creating Youth-Adult Partnerships (24 pages)
Bringing youth and adults together in more aspects of
the safer schools movement will allow an even larger contingency of
students’ voices to be heard. Learn how to identify the barriers that
occur while working to create youth-adult partnerships and strategies
to create youth-adult partnerships.
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Part 7: Making Your Student Club Trans-Inclusive (27 pages)
This resource will help students develop a greater
understanding of transgender people and related issues, as well as
actions that can ensure that transgender and gender non-conforming
people are fully included in all that GSAs do in schools.
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Part 8: Evaluation, Continuation, Celebration (17 pages)
One of the best ways to learn from and build upon your
group’s experiences is by taking the time to assess your work
together. It is also important to stay connected and active when your
GSA does not meet. As an added bonus, this resource offers a template
for creating a journal for your GSA.
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