K-12 Social Justice Themed books
It's Elementary! Talking About Gay Issues in Schools
(A guide for community organizing, professional development, and K-8 Curriculum)
A Welcoming Classroom (grades K-2) pg. 62
Gay and Lesbian Parents and Guardians in Children's Literature (grades K-3) pg. 65
And Tango Makes Three (grades 1-3) pg. 68
Talking About Families (grades 2-4) pg. 72
Dialogue About Current Events (grades 3-8) pg. 77
When I Grow Up I Want to Be A...Moving Beyond Gender Boundaries in Our Lives
Challenging Gender Role Stereotypes K-2 (2 hours or 2-3 days) pg. 2-8
Fair Education Act: Lessons for Elementary
Learning About Sexual Diversity in School: What is Age Appropriate?
(guide for Primary, Middle, and High School students)
Including Everyone: A Handbook for LGBT Inclusion in the Elementary Classroom (including 6th grade)
Missing! Picture Books Reflecting Gay and Lesbian Families (An annotated bibliography of age-appropriate books. Most titles are available at the IMC.)
Discussing Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Identity Issues
Additional Resources:
Fair Education Act Curricula (a site with K-12 lessons created by California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo)
LAUSD: Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity (LGBTQ lessons)
Fair Education Act (links to resources on Pintrest)
QYTF (Queer Youth Task Force of Santa Cruz County): K-12 lessons
We Are Fair - Resources for San Diego
Titles Available at the IMC
Grades K-3
Families by Susan Kuklin ©2006
Call #: 306.85 KUK
Presents brief interviews with children from fifteen diverse American families--including large, small, mixed-race, immigrant, gay and lesbian, divorced, single-parent, religious, adoptive, and special-needs families--about their parents, siblings, lifestyles, and traditions, and includes photos of each family. 15 copies (out of print)
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph became the World's Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by David Diaz.
Call #: CSC 921 RUDOLPH
A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympic. 86 copies
Ready! Set! Respect! GLSEN's Elementary School Toolkit
(K-5 lessons aligned to ELA Common Core Standards)
Set One: Name-Calling, Bullying and Bias (two lessons K-2 and two lessons 3-5)
Set Two: Family Diversity (two lessons K-2 and two lessons 3-5)
Set Three: Gender Roles and Diversity (two lessons K-2 and two lessons 3-5)
The GLSEN Companion to NEA's Read Across America
(Provides discussion guides to the titles below drawn from Ready! Set! Respect! )
And Tango Makes Three (grades K-2)
Antonio's Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio (grades 3-5)
Chrysanthemum (grades K-2)
Just Kidding (grades 3-5)
Oliver Button is a Sissy (grades K-2)
It's Okay to Be Different (grades K-2)