Student Leadership
How to start and run a GSA, advocate for policy change as a student, and more.
Recorded Sessions
Know Your Rights Trivia: LGBTQIAP2+ Students’ Rights in Schools
Join us to play virtual trivia and learn about LGBTQIAP2+ students’ rights in schools. This interactive program seeks to inform young people, families, and advocates on the current state of students’ rights in Texas and across the country, including providing updates from the ACLU of Texas on recent court cases and how students, parents, educators, and allies can help make schools more inclusive and affirming.
How to Use Stories and Numbers as a Tool to Advocate for Supportive Policies at School
This webinar presents the Stories and Numbers Project, a new online tool for accessing resources related to the safety and well-being of LGBTQ youth in Texas schools. The purpose of the webinar is to orient students, parents, educators, and policy-makers to the resources covered on the website, highlighting the evidence on school policies, programs, and practices that are linked to positive adjustment and academic success for LGBTQ students. Additionally, we present ways to institute evidence-based safe school strategies. Attendees come away with action steps for implementing inclusive nondiscrimination policies and LGBTQ-related curricula, supporting Gender-Sexuality Alliances, and accessing professional development resources.
LGBTQIAP2+ Inclusive Sex Education: Presented by GLSEN and SIECUS
Pride Month wraps up with LGBTQ+ Inclusive Sex Ed Week of Action June 22-26. Although in-person pride events have been cancelled due to COVID-19, it’s important that we continue to take this time to celebrate and uplift the experiences of LGBTQ+ people. Join as GLSEN’s Education Manager, Becca Mui, will moderate a panel discussion with sexual health educators and LGBTQ+ students. We will share relevant research on LGBTQ+ sex ed, share resources and best practices for K-12 inclusion, and discuss school-based advocacy efforts. LGBTQ+ youth panelists will share their own experiences with sexual health education, their advocacy efforts, and what they want educators to know to better support them.
How to Start and Sustain a GSA
From the brilliant minds of four Texas teens, join us for a conversation about GSA club membership. We'll learn a little bit about each of these amazing leaders, and then the panelists will tackle everything from maintaining the safety of students who participate in the GSA to what they want in a GSA advisor, and more. If you're a student, teacher or school faculty member who has questions about Gender & Sexuality Alliance clubs, this is your chance to get all of them answered by the experts!