One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium: LGBT Educators Speak Out About What's Gotten Better . . . and What Hasn't

One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium: LGBT Educators Speak Out About What's Gotten Better . . . and What Hasn't

by Kevin Jennings
One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium: LGBT Educators Speak Out About What's Gotten Better . . . and What Hasn't

One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium: LGBT Educators Speak Out About What's Gotten Better . . . and What Hasn't

by Kevin Jennings

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Overview

Twenty completely new stories of negotiating the triumphs and challenges of being an LGBT educator in the twenty-first century
 
For more than twenty years, the One Teacher in Ten series has served as an invaluable source of strength and inspiration for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender educators. This all-new edition brings together stories from across America—and around the world—resulting in a rich tapestry of varied experiences. From a teacher who feels he must remain closeted in the comparative safety of New York City public schools to teachers who are out in places as far afield as South Africa and China, the teachers and school administrators in One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium prove that LGBT educators are as diverse and complex as humanity itself. Voices largely absent from the first two editions—including transgender people, people of color, teachers working in rural districts, and educators from outside the United States—feature prominently in this new collection, providing a fuller and deeper understanding of the triumphs and challenges of being an LGBT teacher today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807055878
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 08/25/2015
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 428 KB

About the Author

Kevin Jennings is the founder of GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network. Currently he is the executive director of the Arcus Foundation, a leading funder of human rights and conservation work. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue: Forget the Rest
Mzoli: Cape Town, South Africa

PART 1: SIGNS OF CHANGE

1. Coming Out for Owen
Alan Yount: New York, New York

2. Back to School
Philip de Sa e Silva: St. Paul, Minnesota

3. Teaching Trans
Ryan Ambuter: Holyoke, Massachusetts

4. Everyone Knows Now
Carmen Neely: New York, New York

5. Just the Normal Stuff
Deidre Cuffee-Gray: Springfield, Massachusetts

6. Yankee in the Southland
Patty Smith: Petersburg, Virginia

7. Saving My Voice
Andrea Fazel: Sacrament, California

8. Two Teachers in Twenty
Elisa Waters and Joey Waters: Long Island, New York

PART 2: UNEXPECTED JOURNEYS

9. A Mother’s Journey
Susan Fitzpatrick Radzilowski: Detroit, Michigan

10. Gay and Brown in Private Schools
Ashok Reddy: Anytown, California

11. Many Strands, One Thread
Steven Benoit: Basking Ridge, New Jersey

12. Coming Out at Fifty
Garth Zimmermanm: Appleton, Wisconsin

13. Finding a Way and Making One: Coming out Brown, Feminist, and Queer
Ileana Jiménez: New York, New York

14. Visibility
Erika Cobain: Saratoga, California

15. My Story of Self-Identity
Michael Chan: Fuzhou, China

16. How Far “Out” Do You Have to Be?
Dominique Gerard: Montclair, New Jersey

PART 3: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES

17. Teacher of the Year
Brett Bigham: Portland, Oregon

18. The Advocate
Esih Efuru: Charlotte, North Carolina

19. Good Enough?
“Mr. G”: Bronx, New York

20. There Is Uncertainty, but There Is Also Hope
Sophie E. Gilbert: Riverdale, California

21. Questions to Self: Being a Queer Latino Educator
Benny Vásquez: New York, New York

22. We’re Not Nearly There
Duran Renkema: Rotterdam, Holland

Epilogue: Polishing Up Our Schools
Rodney Glasgow: Potomac: Maryland
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