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Growing a Gender-Inclusive Biology Education
Workshop Description
Nearly all youth in secondary education will study biology, the science of living things. Teaching biology presents many opportunities for authentic inclusion of gender-diversity. How can we talk about X and Y chromosomes while affirming our transgender and intersex students? How will students with same-sex parents interpret and internalize our lessons about meiosis and sexual reproduction? And how do all sexual orientations fit into the theory of evolution? In this session, we will introduce a framework for teaching and talking about biology in a gender-inclusive way. We will discuss why this is an important task for science educators and present examples of how this looks in our own high school classroom, and how it may look for educators in different subject areas and with different levels of experience with gender diversity. This session is for educators in grades 6-12 as well as for anybody who wants to talk about biology in a gender-inclusive way.
Conference Track
Professional
Topic
Schools/Education
Workshop Outline/Powerpoint
Primary Contact
Sam Long, Denver Public Schools
Workshop Presenters
Sam Long, Denver Public Schools
Pronouns
he/him
Presenter Bio
I am an out trans teacher and former trans high school student. I teach high school biology and AP biology in Denver, Colorado. I am passionate about making the subject I teach more inclusive for LGBTQ+ students. I am also an amateur musician and songwriter.
Lewis Maday-Travis
Pronouns
he/him/his
Presenter Bio
Lewis Maday-Travis is a middle school science educator dedicated to promoting equitable, accurate, and universal biology and health education to students of all ages and identities. He currently teaches 8th grade human biology at Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences in Seattle, WA, and writes about his experiences at fishyteaching.com.