Gender-Inclusive Schools

Discipline: Professional Resources

Copyright: 2024

Grade(s): K - 12

Delivery Method: Print

Imprint: Free Spirit Publishing

Author(s): Dave Edwards

Gender-Inclusive Schools

How to Affirm and Support Gender-Expansive Students

Help gender-expansive students feel safe, included, and affirmed at school.

As one of the most vulnerable student populations, gender-expansive youth need school policies and practices that focus on their happiness, health, safety, and privacy. Schools and teachers need concrete, accessible strategies and tools for supporting them. This book empowers every educator with those tools and strategies. Whether educators are brand new to or already familiar with gender diversity issues, they'll find opportunities to learn and practice in a judgment-free, low-stakes way.

This must-have resource:

  • Shares how gender identity and transition impact students in schools
  • Helps educators understand, advocate for, and implement research-based best practices for gender-expansive youth.
  • Provides concrete actions educators can take to use inclusive language and create inclusive classrooms and schools.
  • Supports educators with prompts and practice to prepare for tough conversations.
  • Offers perspectives from gender-expansive youth in their own words.

Written by educator and advocate Dave Edwards, founder of the Gender Inclusive Schools organization, this book grew from the resources and education-specific trainings he has developed working with school districts and independent schools throughout the United States and in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Digital content includes reproducible forms from the book.