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Everyone's School: A Town Hall on Creating LGBTQ Inclusive Classrooms - East Bay
11/20/2014 05:30 PM - 08:30 PM PT
Description
Join Us at Our Family Coalition’s 9th Annual Town Hall
Everyone’s School: A Town Hall on Creating LGBTQ Inclusive Classrooms
Join us with fellow parents, guardians, teachers, administrators, and community members to help build the foundations for creating more welcoming and inclusive classrooms for LGBTQ families.
We will be joined by Sarah and Ian Hoffman, children's book authors of "Jacobs New Dress," totalk about creating inclusive materials and books that challenge gender stereotypes.
We will also hear from parents on how to be an active Family Advocate in elementary schools...and from independent school and local district leaders about different ways we are making LGBTQ families more visible in our school communities.
Book Raffle, Dinner and Children's Activitiesprovided. FREE Event!
Event is free, though donations are always appreciated. Free dinner and child care provided upon advance registration.
We strive to make our programs accessible to all families. Please register for accommodations that would help your family participate to the fullest (e.g. ASL interpreter, translator, childcare providers experienced with kids with disabilities, large print materials, gluten-free food options, etc.). If registering within 48 hours of the event, please call 415-981-1960 to ensure receipt of your request.
in a blog post on our blog (published and archived on our website, which is viewed by over 2,500 unique visitors each month)
highlighted in our monthly e-newsletter (distributed to over 7,500 email addresses)
Listings must be:
Designed for or of particular value to LGBTQ families and children and/or prospective LGBTQ parents
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, if in person, or available online/ virtually, if outside Northern California
Deadline:
Content submitted by the third Tuesday of the month will appear in in the following month’s newsletter.
We love lifting up the good work that members of our community and other social change organizations are doing in the Bay Area and beyond! Let us know if you wish to share a community event or opportunity with our families.
Share your story
We’re looking for stories by or about LGBTQ+ parents/caregivers or prospective parents, as well as the grandparents or adult children of LGBTQ+ headed families.
Generally, we hope your story will not only inform other families on LGBTQ+ family topics, but also let others know that they are not alone in the journey of advocating for our families.
Whether you feel like you’ve arrived, or your story is not yet complete, know that we can keep one another company all along the way. And it always helps to feel a little less alone.