PVUSD Counselors Professional Learning Day - Jan. 14, 2019/January 16, 2018

January 14, 2019 Links

2019 Info

• Kahoot
• Slides
• PVUSD Counselor Survey

January 16, 2018

Purpose: Defining safe and inclusive schools and identifying the actions we can take to make the schools in PVUSD more safe and inclusive. 

Slides *** Ongoing Notes - Google Doc 

Handouts:

Handout (2 pages): Executive Summary, Safe Schools Report (2015)

Handout (1 page): What currently exists in PVUSD regarding safe and inclusive schools - Word  *** Google Doc

Handout (2 pages): Laws and Policies Regarding LGBT Students 

Handout/Article (5 pages): Article: Curriculum as a mirror and a window.

Handout (1 page):  Counseling as a mirror and a window. 

Schedule of Day

7:30 – Refreshments and Warm Up Activity

Two Questions for Post Its:

1. What are one or two questions you would like to ask an LGBT student? (one question on each post-it) 
2. What systems or programs exist at your school to support LGBT youth? (Include school name and one program per post-it).

8:00 – Suzanne – Welcome and Overview of the Day; Introduce Rob. 

8:30 – Rob – LGBT Youth and Support Systems in Santa Cruz County

Overview about elements of Safe Schools Environments

Five key areas of awareness: District leadership, Teacher leadership, Mental Health / Counselor leadership, Health Leadership, Student leadership.

State and District Policies Regarding LGBT Youth 

9:00 - Activity in table groups:

a) Read Individually: Handout (2 pages): Executive Summary, Safe Schools Report (2015)

Handout (2 pages): Laws and Policies in PVUSD Regarding LGBT Students 

b) Complete Individually: Handout (1 page): What currently exists in PVUSD regarding safe and inclusive schools - Word  *** Google Doc

c) Discuss as Group:  What support elements currently exist in our district and schools that promote a safe and inclusive school environment for all students but especially LGBT students? 

d) Whole group: Update LGBT Support Programs in PVUSD poster

9:30 – Break

9:45 - ACTIVITY: Safe and Inclusive School Environment Posters

4 posters displayed around the room. Post it notes for participants. 

• Top of Poster 1: If having a safe and inclusive school climate for all students were central to our work…how would we feel?
• Top of Poster 2: If having a safe and inclusive school climate for all students were central to our work… what would we see?
• Top of Poster 3: If having a safe and inclusive school climate for all students were central to our work…what would we hear?
• Top of Poster 4: If having a safe and inclusive school climate for all students were central to our work…what would the adults and the students work on?  

Room Prep: Post the 4 posters around the room. Give each person a stack of post it notes and something to write with.

Process:

• 5 min:  Intro: The purpose of this activity is to understand what safe and inclusive schools should look like in PVUSD.   
• 5 min: Step 1 – Silent Writing: (No talking, just writing) Look at the posters around the room and fill out as many post its as you can in the next 5 minutes to go on any of the posters – fill out at least one post it for each poster. Just write – quiet time. 
• 5 min. Step 2 – Display your thoughts on Posters: Now that you are finished, please go and put your post-its on the posters and then sit back down.
• 5 min. Step 3 – Walk around: Walk around and look at each poster. Identify any “ahas” that are interesting to you. Feel free to make any notations on the posters such as ? or “agree” or !!...
• 10 min. Step 4: Discussion Questions: 
• As you looked around the posters, what “ahas” or important things stood out to you?  
• As we look at “what exists” poster and these new posters, what are some elements that are the same?
• Which elements do we need to work on?

11:30-12:30 – Lunch

12:30 – Kahoot Game: Safe and Inclusive Schools and LGBTQ History

1:00 - Rob – A few stories from LGBT history.

1:15 Activity: Curriculum and Counseling as a Mirror and a Window.

a) Read: Article: Curriculum as a mirror and a window.

b) Individually Complete: Handout (1 page):  Counseling as a mirror and a window.  * Google Doc 

c) Discuss in group:  your key learning from the article. Your reflections about "Counseling as a mirror and window" activity. 

2:15 – Break

Workshop Feedback Form 

2:30-3:00 – Group discussion.  

Next Steps – How to make our schools more safe and inclusive

Final Feedback - Once Around. 

Safe Schools Resources

• Santa Cruz County Comprehensive Sex Ed Grant (Jan. - May 2018) - Register here. 
• Santa Cruz County Safe Schools Project 
• Santa Cruz Diversity Center / Youth Programs (Watsonville Meet Up - Fridays; Santa Cruz Meet Up - Saturdays)
• 146 Things to Do Other Than Self-Harm
• Santa Cruz Queer Youth Task Force / Queer Youth Leadership Awards  
• ** More Professional Learning **  
• Transgender Resources:  The Gender Unicorn   *** Gender Spectrum 
• A Little History About Teaching LGBT History in California 
• You Tube Video: Don't Erase My History  
• Laws and Policies Regarding LGBT History and LGBT Youth   
• National Park Service Series: LGBTQ America Theme Study of LGBTQ History (2016)

LGBT Related Research About Safe School Environments and Youth

• Santa Cruz Safe Safe Schools Report (2015) - California curriculum, court cases, etc. 
• NEA Report About LGBT Youth (2009)
• Curriculum and LGBT Students (2012)
• Being Out in School (2014)
• Transgender Youth in Schools Guide (2015)
• Supporting LGBT Families (2009) 

LGBT History Curriculum in California

• Making the Framework Fair (2014, Romesburg et al) 
• CA History Framework Chapter with LGBT History Highlights (PDF) - 11th Grade - Word - PDF.  
• History Framework Matrix - All Grades (Romesburg)
• California HSS Rollout Slides  
• California History Social Science Framework - All (CDE. 2016) 
• 11th Grade History Standards