{"id":92541,"date":"2020-10-22T17:11:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T22:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=92541"},"modified":"2020-10-23T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:13:37","slug":"bc-educators-expand-on-what-it-means-to-have-sogi-inclusive-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/bc-educators-expand-on-what-it-means-to-have-sogi-inclusive-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. educators expand on what it means to have SOGI-inclusive schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sian Shin<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Four years after the ARC Foundation launched the SOGI 1 2 3 program in British Columbia to make schools more LGBTQ+ inclusive, educators in all 60 school districts are expanding on what it means for their schools.<\/p>\n<p>SOGI 1 2 3, which stands for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, is an online learning tool kit for educators. Scout Gray, the SOGI 1 2 3 program lead, said the program focuses on providing resources to make it as easy as possible for teachers to integrate SOGI content into their classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do know from research that the majority of educators want to be SOGI-inclusive, but don\u2019t always feel they know how,\u201d they said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s where we come in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Public places and schools are where students experienced the most bullying in connection with sexual orientation and gender identity, according to Jasmin Roy Foundation\u2019s LGBT+ Realities Survey. Seventy-five percent of LGBTQ+ respondents were bullied and 45% of heterosexual cisgender respondents experienced bullying, the results show.<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/3959075\/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<div style=\"width: 100%!;margin-top: 4px!important;text-align: right!important\"><a class=\"flourish-credit\" style=\"text-decoration: none!important\" href=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/3959075\/?utm_source=embed&amp;utm_campaign=visualisation\/3959075\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 105px!important;height: 16px!important;border: none!important;margin: 0!important\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/made_with_flourish.svg\" alt=\"Made with Flourish\" \/> <\/a><\/div>\n<p>As of December 2016, the Ministry of Education requires all B.C. school districts and independent schools to include specific references to SOGI in their anti-bullying policies. However, some SOGI educators emphasize that policies are not enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the daily pieces that contribute to culture and will continually send a message to students on what\u2019s okay and what\u2019s not,\u201d said Tanya Boteju, the SOGI lead educator and senior English teacher at York House School. \u201cWhat are the kids seeing when they walk down the hallways? What are they noticing about the adults in their lives? You can have a policy, but if the day-to-day culture of inclusion and equity isn\u2019t there, then that\u2019s going to be a message that\u2019s sent no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boteju said one of the most important elements that SOGI educators must take into consideration is intersectionality, a term coined by professor Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw to describe how people\u2019s social identities overlap and how various forms of inequality operate together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is easy for us to fall into those silos of working with a specific group of marginalized folks,\u201d said Boteju. \u201cBut where does that intersect also with kids of color, with disabled kids and mental health, etc.? We can\u2019t ignore the varied identities of these kids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/3959283\/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<div style=\"width: 100%!;margin-top: 4px!important;text-align: right!important\"><a class=\"flourish-credit\" style=\"text-decoration: none!important\" href=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/3959283\/?utm_source=embed&amp;utm_campaign=visualisation\/3959283\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 105px!important;height: 16px!important;border: none!important;margin: 0!important\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/made_with_flourish.svg\" alt=\"Made with Flourish\" \/> <\/a><\/div>\n<p>Out In Schools is an education program that aims to make positive change to school culture. As one of the collaborators of SOGI 1 2 3, Out In Schools brings films into classrooms all across B.C. to engage students in promoting safe and inclusive learning environments. With Out In Schools, students as young as fourth grade engage in facilitated discussions on homophobia, transphobia and bullying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really important that we start these conversations from a young age, because it\u2019s never too early to start building empathy and understanding of people around us,\u201d Program Manager Miranda Rutty said.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2004, Steve Mulligan was in his second year of teaching when he began his efforts to integrate SOGI-inclusive education at his school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a student in the class who stood out,\u201d Mulligan said. \u201cHe was spending all his time with the girls and he was being teased for that. I felt that I needed to address that. I also thought that there\u2019s no reason that I shouldn\u2019t be talking to these kids about being gay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From that point, Mulligan worked with the school administration to normalize queerness and ensure that students could express themselves freely without being bullied. Now as the SOGI educator at The University of British Columbia, he focuses on educating teacher candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Almost two-thirds of survey respondents who completed their B.Ed. degrees reported not having been prepared at all in their degree programs to teach LGBTQ+ content, according to \u201cThe Every Teacher Project\u201d published by The Manitoba Teachers\u2019 Society. These educators reported that there were some forms of LGBTQ+ content incorporated into very few courses, and over half of the respondents reported that none of their courses included LGBTQ+ content.<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/3968318\/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<div style=\"width: 100%!;margin-top: 4px!important;text-align: right!important\"><a class=\"flourish-credit\" style=\"text-decoration: none!important\" href=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/3968318\/?utm_source=embed&amp;utm_campaign=visualisation\/3968318\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 105px!important;height: 16px!important;border: none!important;margin: 0!important\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/made_with_flourish.svg\" alt=\"Made with Flourish\" \/> <\/a><\/div>\n<p>Mulligan said he was motivated to get involved with creating the SOGI 1 2 3 website in order to help teachers become SOGI experts in their own school districts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere in B.C., teachers have a lot of autonomy over how they teach and what they teach, which is a good thing,\u201d he said. \u201cBut also, sometimes with respect to human rights issues, it\u2019s not such a great thing because it means that teachers have the authority to leave things out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Myriam Dumont, a parent and educator at Cleveland Elementary School, said SOGI education is about making different identities visible and accepted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough not talking about SOGI, we\u2019re sending a really strong message to kids that it\u2019s not normal or it\u2019s strange or it\u2019s scary,\u201d she said. \u201cOmitting things when we\u2019re educating kids sends them a really strong message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dumont added that it is crucial to normalize queerness both in and out of the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think about my kids, they\u2019ve had the benefit of growing up surrounded by queer families and their own queer family,\u201d she said. \u201cSo for them, it\u2019s not rocket science, it\u2019s not complicated, it\u2019s not challenging. It\u2019s just one of many family configurations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Gray, the work that they do is inspired by their belief that schools can easily be set up to be inclusive spaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if education like teaching tolerance won\u2019t fix everything, that doesn\u2019t mean that the schools themselves can\u2019t be places of inclusion,\u201d they said. \u201cIf educators and the education system have the tools that they need to create that inclusion, then that\u2019s a great place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next step for SOGI 1 2 3 is to expand across Canada, according to Gray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so much we can build on and a lot that we can replicate in other provinces,\u201d they said. \u201cWe\u2019re definitely hearing a need. We are actively hearing from other provinces saying, \u2018Come here!\u2019 We just need to figure out how to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"\/\/www.sogieducation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SOGI 1 2 3 website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Sian Shin is a social justice reporter at Medill, covering the LGBTQ+ community in Vancouver. You can follow her on Twitter at <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sianshin\"><i>@sianshin.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sian Shin Medill Reports Four years after the ARC Foundation launched the SOGI 1 2 3 program in British Columbia to make schools more LGBTQ+ inclusive, educators in all 60 school districts are expanding on what it means for their schools. 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