socially  just  educational  consulting  and  coaching®
​Building from the Social Justice Framework of Miller & Kirkland (2012), I offer Professional Development Support and Technical Assistance that builds dispositions and capacity for anti-bias, prejudice reduction and equity across curriculum, pedagogy, and policy. Sessions are structured to be Reflective, Change-Oriented and Solutions-Based.
Keynote
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Queering Literacy Instruction: Moving Trans*+ness into the Classroom Western

New York Network of English Teachers Speakers Series | ​Buffalo State University | November, 2016
Types of Support
  • Small, whole group, and one-to-one
  • Training trainers
  • Research-based solutions grounded in social justice and equity
  • Short or long-term
  • Presentations and keynotes
INSTITUTIONAL FOCI
 (public and private)
  • K-12 Schools and Districts
  • Community Colleges
  • Universities
  • Small Businesses
  • Non-profits
CONSTITUENTS SERVED
  • ​Administrators (e.g., superintendents, principals, department chairs, Deans)
  • Staff, support staff, school personnel, learning specialists, instructional coaches
  • Teachers and/or faculty
  • Students
  • Parents and/or guardians
  • Community Organizations
  • Grant funders
  • Social workers and counselors
  • Policy makers
POSSIBLE OUTCOMES​
  • Advancing knowledge, dispositions, and pedagogical capacities about supporting the well-being of students' personal and social-emotional legitimacies
  • Experiencing the increased confidence to engage with and motivate student learning
  • Strengthening pedagogical tools
  • Developing concrete understanding and awareness about how to create external and internal safety
  • Equitable contexts
COMMUNITIES WORKED WITH

​NATIONAL

Alabama
Tuscaloosa

California
Carlsbad
Los Angeles
San Francisco

Colorado
Aurora
Boulder
Denver
Estes Park
Fort Collins
Golden
Thornton

Florida
Orlando

Georgia
Atlanta
Athens

Indiana
Bloomington

Illinois
Chicago
Elmhurst

Louisiana
New Orleans

Maryland
Annapolis

Massachusetts
Boston

Michigan
Kalamazoo
Ypsilanti

Minnessota
Minneapolis

Missouri
Columbia
Independence
Kansas City (KS and MO)
Olathe
Overland Park

Nevada
Reno

New Mexico
Albuquerque
Santa Fe

New Hampshire
Keene

New York
Albany
Brookyln
Bronx
Buffalo
Cortland
Long Island
New York City
Syracuse
Yonkers

Oklahoma
Enid
Norman
Tulsa

Pennsylvania
Greensburg
Harrisburg
Homer City
Indiana
Philadelphia 
Pittsburgh
Wilkes-Barre

Tennessee
Nashville

Texas
San Antonio

Utah
Logan

Virginia
Richmond

Washington DC

Wisconsin
Madison

​INTERNATIONAL
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Australia 
Brisbane
Melbourne (forthcoming)
Sydney

Canada
Montreal
Toronto
Vancouver, BC

Chile
Santiago
​Iquique
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India
Bangalore

New Zealand
Christchurch

South Africa
Bloemfontein
Cape Town
Johannseburg
FEATURED VIDEOS (PD AND ACTIVIST WORKS)


Examples of Professional Development

​TRANS*+ AND GENDER CREATIVE/EXPANSIVE YOUTH
  • Unpacking Germane Language and Terms
  • Gender and Sex
  • Trans*+ 101 (names, pronouns, etiquette)
  • Trans*+ Microaggressions
  • Reflecting on and Understanding Cisgender privilege
  • Developing (a) Gender Self-determination
  • Teaching, Affirming and Recognizing Trans*+ and Gender Creative/Expansive Youth
  • Trans*+ing Literacy Practices (crossing disciplinary lines)
  • Auditing and Shifting Curriculum to be Inclusive about Topics Related to Gender Identity
  • Shifting Policies and Practices in Schools
  • Bathrooms, Locker Rooms, and Playgrounds
  • Creating School Environments for External and Internal Safety
  • Working with Parents (administrators, staff) around Trans*+ Issues
  • Community Engagement with and for Trans*+ Students
  • Understanding Intersectional Trans*+ Identities
  • Books, Films, Videos, Featuring Trans*+ Youth
  • Transgender History and its Role in Schools
  • Disrupting Trans*+-focused Bullying
  • Expanding Language Practices to be Inclusive of and for Trans*+ Youth
  • We Just Need to Talk About…
​LGBT*+IAGCQ TOPICS
  • Reflecting on and Understanding Cisgender, Heteronormative, and Gender-based Privilege
  • Trans*+ing Classrooms: The Pedagogy of Refusal as Mediator for Learning
  • Trans*+ing Spaces: The Indeterminacy of Sociospatial Justice Work in Education 
  • Trans*+ing Pedagogy: Recognition of Trans*+ and Gender Creative Youth in the Secondary ELA Classroom
  • Queering Literacy Instruction: Moving Trans*+ness into the Classroom                    
  • How Can I Most Effectively Support Trans*+ and Gender and Creative Students?
  • Queer YA Adult Literature: Honoring, Affirming and Trans*+forming Education
  • A Queer Literacy Framework Promoting (a)Gender and (a)Sexuality Self-determination and Justice 
  • Unpacking Trans*+ Microaggressions: Creating Safe, Inclusive, and Affirming Spaces for Recognizing Trans*+ and Gender-Creative Students: A Queer Literacy Framework
  • Refusing to be Refused: Literacy as a Pedagogy of Refusal
  • Action Plans for Advocacy: LGBT*+ GC/EIAQ Voices of Empowerment in Education
  • Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans*+ and Gender Creative Youth: A Queer Literacy Framework
  • Unpacking Trans*+ Microaggressions: Creating Safe, Inclusive, and Affirming Spaces for Recognizing Trans*+ and Gender-Creative Students: A Queer Literacy Framework
  • Teaching Social Justice Using the Queer Literacy Framework
  • Reading Young Adult Literature Queerly: A Queer Literacy Framework for Inviting (A)Gender and (A)Sexuality Self-Determination and Justice
  • Achieving Social Justice for LGBT*+ GC/EIAQ People in Schools: Learning from the Stories of Students, Families, Teachers, Administrators and Other School Personnel and Community Members
​TEACHING, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND EQUITY PEDAGOGY
  • Unpacking Discourse in Syllabi: Teaching, Affirming and Recognizing All Students in Courses
  • Creating Internal and External Safety: Motivating Student Learning and Increasing Engagement
  • A Pedagogy of Love: Calling in our Classes
  • Spatializing Social Justice Research Across Curriculum
  • Moving Social Justice Research from Theory to Policy
  • Social Justice Policymaking in Teacher Education from Conception to Application
  • Standard VI: Realizing Social Justice Dispositions in Teaching and Teacher Education
  • Conceptualizing, Integrating, and Assessing Artifacts for Social Justice
  • Perspectives on Educational Accountability to Children and Communities
  • Teaching Social Justice Using the Queer Literacy Framework
  • Critically Assessing Social Justice in Assessments
  • Writing the Story of Teaching for Social Justice in English Education
  • Achieving Social Justice for LGBT*+ GC/EIAQ People in Schools: Learning from the Stories of Students, Families, Teachers, Administrators and Other School Personnel and Community Members
  • The Politics of Policy and Practice. The Possibilities of Social Justice
  • Interrogating Patterns in Teaching for Social Justice
ANTI-BULLYING
  • Mythology of the Norm: Disrupting the Culture of Bullying in Schools
  • Generation BULLIED 2.0: Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Our Most Vulnerable Students
  • Moving an Anti-bullying Stance into Schools: Supporting the Identities of Transgender and Gender Creative/Expansive Youth
  • Heteronormative Harassment: Queer Bullying and Gender Non-conforming Students.
  • Understanding, Interrupting, and Shifting The Tides of Bullying for Generation Bullied 2.0
  • Unpacking The Mind of a Bully: The Neuroscience of Bullying
  • Connecting the “Anti” to “Bullying”:  Addressing LGBT*+ GC/EIAQ Issues in Classrooms
  • A Call to Action: Addressing DASA and Including  LGBT*+ GC/EIAQ Issues in Classrooms 
  • Stop Bullying Now: Sharing Strategies for Change
  • Recognizing and Interrupting Microaggressions Against Trans*+ and Gender Creative/Expansive Students
  • LGBT*+ GC/EIAQ Issues in Education: Coaching Teachers and Students to Combat Bullying
SCHOOL TO-OPPORTUNITY PIPELINE
  • Refusing to be Refused: Literacy as a Pedagogy of Refusal. Literacy Educators and The Dismantling Of The School-To-Prison Pipeline
  • Policy Documentation on Resolution for Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline
  • Will I Be Silent: Understanding The New Jim Crow
  • Literacy as Educational Intervention for Disrupting the School-to-Prison-Pipeline
Additional Areas of Professional DevelopmenT
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  • Learning Assessment Development Strategies
  • Secondary Language Arts, Humanities and History Curriculums
  • Curriculum Restructuring, Scope and Sequencing, and Vertical Alignment
  • Moving Theory into Practice
  • Practitioner Reflexivity
  • Social Justice Teaching Action Strategies

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