Pitman Public Schools: LGBT and Disabilities Law Alignment Index ST ENGAGING STUDENTS • FOSTERING ACHIEVEMENT • CULTIVATING 21 CENTURY GLOBAL SKILLS
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Pitman Public Schools: LGBT and Disabilities Law Alignment Index ST ENGAGING STUDENTS • FOSTERING ACHIEVEMENT • CULTIVATING 21 CENTURY GLOBAL SKILLS This guidance document identifies Social Studies, ELA , VPA, and other instructional units and concepts in alignment with (N.J.S.A.18A:35-4.36) LGBT and Disabilities Law. Pitman Middle School (Grades 6-8) Note: Hyperlinks connect to Garden State Equality guidance documents related to the concepts addressed. Grade Level and Concept as identified by the Garden State Where this concept fits in existing curricula Garden State Equality Instructional material Equality Commission (Subject/ Map Unit Number/ Name) Commission or GLSEN that may be used in Recommended Text conjunction with Garden State Equality recommended texts. Gr 6-8: “No Name Calling Week”- “Challenging Guidance- Pitman Middle School “Diversity GLSEN-No Name Calling -A study of current Assumptions” Week” Week Activity Document events, case law, and close collaboration Lesson Rationale: “This lesson provides students an The district holds a “Diversity Week” to celebrate between history and opportunity to experience what it’s like to be labeled in our differences while locating quality guest guidance departments a negative way, and as a result, develop empathy for those who speakers/ lecturers to address issues of importance is recommended. others label, even though to our students. Past topics of discussion have those labels don’t fit” (GLSEN). included life as a LGBTQ teen, bullying, drug abuse, and discrimination. Gr 6- “Cultural and Personal Identity” Social Studies, Unit 2, Ch. 4- India GLSEN- Identity Flower District Repository Activity Supplemental Readings Lesson Rationale: “Teaching young people about major The India unit begins the 6th grade study of identifiers helps them to learn about their own unique comparative religion and cultural identity. The Grade 6 World identities, as well as the myriad identities in their classroom themes of identity, religion, and culture are Religions Overview communities. This lesson supports each student’s ability to addressed in a manner that reflects the spirit of this Holt- McDougal- empathize, connect, and collaborate with a diverse group activity. Ancient Civilizations of peers—skills that are of increasingly important in our multicultural, global society. In this lesson, students will explore their own identities and personal experiences with race, Building upon our unique traditions, the mission of the Pitman School District, in partnership with our families and community, is to educate all students through exceptional learning experiences to be discerning, ethical, confident citizens. All students will satisfy the requirements of the New Jersey Student Learning Standards. culture, ability, family structure, religion or spirituality, and gender identity and expression. After individual reflection and group discussion, students will create their own identity flowers, filling each petal with words, adjectives, and/or identity terms that describe them” (GLSEN). Gr 7- “Civic Action to Evoke Change” Social Studies, Unit 6, Intro to Civic This concept was iCivics- I am Chart/ Involvement overviewed in the curricular Civic Action Lesson Rationale: “Civic action on the state or national level mandate but there were no Presentation isn’t like a school project that is over in a few weeks. It takes Social reform, civic activism, and civil rights are explicit supplemental years or even decades to make changes in government and the essence of this unit. Encouraging students to resources in the Garden iCivics- Taking Civic society. Think about all the work involved! First, a group that speak out, defend their beliefs, and the rights of State Equality portal. Action to Effect wants change must educate the public and lawmakers about the others is of paramount importance as Americans Instructional aides Change Student problems that exist. Sometimes this means changing peoples’ and the backbone of a civics course. Most of the addressing the component Documents.pdf attitudes and misconceptions. Then, the group must work to get model curricula produced by Garden State Equality of the mandate have been laws passed, make sure the laws are carried out correctly, and reflects this theme. The current curricular sourced from iCivics, the Inquiry Lesson w maybe even defend the laws against challenges in the courts. It framework works in concert with the activities and student textbook, and all Primary Sources- Is takes all three branches of the government to make change, as tasks in the LGBTQ inclusive curriculum. applicable district Protest Patriotic.pdf well as the “fourth branch”—citizens!” (iCivics). repository materials. Gr 7- “Civil Rights/ Anti LGBT Crimes”- “Sakia Gunn” Social Studies, Unit 8, Bill of Rights Garden State Equality Teachers may use any -Grade 7- Sakia Gunn, (appropriate) current Lesson Background: “The 2003 murder of Sakia Gunn in The study of Civil Rights, personal liberties, and the Media Coverage of event publication to Newark, NJ was a hate crime that mobilized friends, and family opposition to Civil Rights/ discrimination is Anti-LGBTQ crimes, and further reinforce these into action, and marked a turning point in Newark queer covered in this unit. The case of Sakia Dunn is one Value Assumptions (1).pdf concepts. CNN10 history. The events that led up to and followed their of many examples that could be used within the curates news articles/ death demonstrates how structural systems of social control scope of this unit to discuss the violation of one’s videos related to these intersect and overlap in numerous ways, influencing beliefs and Civil Rights. Garden State Equality concepts. The district actions of people across and within groups. In learning about -Grade 7- Sakia Gunn, Safe has developed a Sakia Gunn, their death, and response to it in the community Spaces, and NJ CNN10 news media and across local and national media outlets through analysis of Anti-LGBTQ Violence evaluation form to primary and secondary materials, students can develop an Mobilization.pdf assist students in understanding of the persistence of systems such as patriarchy, understanding current hyper-masculinity, homophobia, and racism, with the hopeful events related content. result of developing a comprehensive toolkit to confront and dismantle them” Inquiry Lesson w (Garden State Equality). Primary Sources- Is Protest Patriotic.pdf Gr 7- “The History of Discrimination Under Law” Social Studies, Unit 7, Foundations of American This concept was iCivics-Plessy_Lesson Building upon our unique traditions, the mission of the Pitman School District, in partnership with our families and community, is to educate all students through exceptional learning experiences to be discerning, ethical, confident citizens. All students will satisfy the requirements of the New Jersey Student Learning Standards. Democracy overviewed in the curricular Plan.pdf Lesson Rationale: This lesson reviews landmark Supreme Court mandate but there were no Cases that have institutionalized or overturned discriminatory This unit teaches the Judicial Branch of American explicit supplemental iCivics- Brown v. BOE practices at the federal level. Examples of cases examined in government through the examination of landmark resources in the Garden student.pdf this lesson include: cases and current events. State Equality portal. ● Plessy V. Ferguson Instructional aides TIME- 9 Landmark ● Brown V. Board of Education addressing the component Supreme Court Cases ● Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act of the mandate have been That Shaped LGBTQ ● United States v. Windsor (2013) sourced from iCivics, the Rights in America ● Obergefell v Hodges (2015) student textbook, and all ● The Americans with Disabilities Act applicable district Inquiry Lesson w repository materials. Primary Sources- Religious Freedom.pdf District Repository Supplemental Readings Gr 7-8- “Gender Inequality in the Art World: American Social Studies/ Art- Where applicable to Garden State Equality- Holt McDougal: Women Sculptors” facilitate an interdisciplinary panel discussion Grade 7-8-Gender American History- Inequality in the Art World_ Beginnings to 1877 Lesson Rationale: “Women artists, especially LGBTQ women Discussion of discrimination based upon gender American Women Unit: Social Reform of color, are underrepresented in art history and museum norms happens extensively in the 8th Grade Social Sculptors.pdf collections. It is not historically accurate to place a modern Studies unit titled Antebellum Reform. Throughout Document Based label like “non-binary” on the artists Edmonia Lewis, Anne this unit, the Women’s Rights, Temperance, Social Activity- The Gender Whitney, and Harriet Hosmer, in addition to other women who Welfare, Treatment of the Mentally Ill, and Workers Wage Gap.pdf lived in the 19th century and broke from the “norms” of gender Reform movements are introduced and discussed. expression. However, it is important to note that these women Contemporary issues like “the Gender Pay Gap” District Repository lived what were considered divergent lifestyles and in spite of and other discriminatory practices based upon Supplemental Readings adversity grew their artistic practices to become the first race, gender etc are used to further illustrate this professional women sculptors on record in the United States. argument. The Garden State Equality lesson in the This lesson seeks to balance the scales of representation in art previous cell