Safe Is Not Enough by Sadowski Michael

Safe Is Not Enough

Better Schools for LGBTQ Students

Sadowski Michael

Safe Is Not Enough illustrates how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities. Using examples from classrooms, schools, and districts across the country, Michael Sadowski identifies emerging practices such as creating an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum; fostering a whole-school climate that is supportive of LGBTQ students; providing adults who can act as mentors and role models; and initiating effective family and community outreach programs.

While progress on LGBTQ issues in schools remains slow, in many parts of the country schools have begun making strides toward becoming safer, more welcoming places for LGBTQ students. Schools typically achieve this by revising antibullying policies and establishing GSAs (gay-straight student alliances). But it takes more than a deficit-based approach for schools to become places where LGBTQ students can fulfill their potential. In Safe Is Not Enough, Michael Sadowski highlights how educators can make their schools more supportive of LGBTQ students’ positive development and academic success.


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ISBN 9781612509426
Genre YA Nonfiction (Young Adult); Reference; Education
Publication Date 09-Aug-16
Publisher Harvard Education Press
Format Paperback
No. of Pages 232
LoC Classification LC2575 .S23 2016
Language English
Foreword Author Kevin Jennings
Subject Bisexual Students – United States; Gay Students – United States; Homosexuality And Education – United States; Lesbian Students – United States; Sexual Minorities – Education; Transgender Youth – Education – United States
BookID 10950

Author: LFWBooks