Mind Over Matters: June 2021 “Pride Matters”

Age/Target Activities Description Audience All students and Directions: Draw/write positive messages on the sidewalk. staff

https://chalkthewalks.c om/ Take a picture and post to twitter using the hashtag #BCPSCares and #MindOverMatters

Secondary Webinar Students and Staff

Register here Add your pronouns to What are Personal Pronouns and Why do they Matter your email signature It has become quite common in diverse and inclusive environments to add your gender pronouns in your email signature. This new better practice helps minimize misgendering and is an important strategy towards inclusivity. View some samples that you may incorporate in your email signature:

Celebrate Who You Read the adapted article Celebrate Who You Are. Afterwards, Are! write a letter of gratitude and appreciation to yourself. Step 1: Write a heartfelt letter of gratitude, appreciation and love to yourself about yourself. Step 2: Put the letter in a sealed envelope with your name, address and a stamp on it. Step 3: Give the letter to someone you trust and ask them to drop it in the mail to you at some point in the next year (without telling you when they do it).

Age/Target Activities Description Audience Staff Change your Directions: background (Microsoft Save the file to teams) to one of the C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrou follow images to show nds\Uploads your support Where you see the bold and the red you must replace that with YOUR username.

Order BCPS Pride Use this link to order your sticker or magnet. Stickers/Magnets to show your LGBTQIA support

High School Article Resources for LGBTQIA+ children, adolescents and young adults students living in non-affirming environments

Writing Activity Share your pride YA pride story:

Coloring LGBTQ History Coloring Book

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: BCPS and BCPL eBook/Audiobook Resources BCPS Teen Book Cloud in BCPS Digital Content: Click on Search in the upper right; click on Search by keyword; choose LGBT from the dropdown. The titles are multiuser. Baltimore County Public Library BCPL OverDrive: LGBTQ YA books available to download. Every BCPS student has a BCPL library account (their BCPS id number). Library Media Specialists can provide further information, screen shots, etc. Your school’s Library Media Specialist is an expert at connecting kids with books and have all the resources available to help them. You may also contact Lauren Magnuson, Library Media Specialist at Kenwood High School, at [email protected].

Booklists: 59 Children’s Books that Celebrate Pride LGBT Children’s Books Rainbow Library Ebooks Trans Voices from the Seattle Public Library NCTE Build Your Stack: Inclusive Stories Affirming Gender Diversity YA Pride: Advocating for Inclusive and Affirming Content in YA Lit Well-curated list of Fantasy and Sci-fi YA books with Queer protagonists by Sarah Waites, who queer and asexual

Staff Development Suggestions Teaching Tolerance “Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students” GLSEN Educator Resources The Trevor Project “Supporting Black LGBTQ Youth Mental Health” How to Make Your Digital Classroom More LGBTQ Friendly Glossary of Terms with short videos