News and Events
Dr. Payne, Director of the Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI) and Matthew Faiella, attorney with the United States Office of Civil Rights, New York Division, will be speaking at Cornell University Law School on Tuesday, November 8th. They will be addressing LGBTQ in-school harassment and the on-going legal and policy initiatives in New York State.
In the Spring Semester of 2011, QuERI designed and implemented a wide variety of in-schools programming & research initiatives including:
- Visited schools 87 times.
- Implemented programming in 17 schools in 11 districts.
- Worked with 205 students
- Conducted 20 professional development sessions and trained 630 educators.
- Participated in 67 Gay-Straight Alliance or Acceptance Coalition meetings
- Began 2 new Gay Straight Alliances in SCSD, and 1 in a suburban school.
- Facilitated 36 in-school arts workshops and held 25 theatre sessions at SU.
- Organized regional Day of Silence activities, including 3 flash mobs in Syracuse area high schools
- Facilitated two Radical and Responsible Masculinity workshops at Syracuse University.
- Held a book drive to bring LGBTQ age appropriate books into SCSD middle schools.
- Hosted a day-long event for students and educators throughout Central New York—Queer Students CNY: A Day of Art, Education and Action, April 1 at XL Gallery.
- Delivered new Gender workshops to area Gay Straight Alliances
- Hosted an evening of arts expression, “Silent Voices,” at Syracuse Stage for LGBTQ students.
- Served as policy consultants for a school harassment lawsuit in New York State- a test case using Title IX involving the United States Department of Justice.
- Currently serve as the only education researchers/LGBTQ and schools “experts” on the New York State Dignity for All Students Act policy committees.
- Published research about Reduction of Stigma in Schools in Journal of LGBT Youth.
- Presented new research on teacher experiences with transgender students at the Gender and Education Conference, and the Transgender Health Conference
- Presented research at the Pace University “When Words Become Weapons” conference
- Began a case study in rural Vermont on transgender elementary school children
- Currently consulting and providing qualitative research support on a statewide analysis of the heteronormativity of sex education curricula in New York State.
Dr. Payne will be presenting at the Pace University Summer Institute, When Words Become Weapons: Educational Perspectives and Legal Parameters.
For more information or to register for the institute, please click on the link below:
In preparation for New York State’s implementation of the Dignity for All Students Act, The Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI) in the Syracuse University School of Education invites all K-12 Educators to participate in
Queer Students CNY: A Day of Art, Education, and Action
12:30-6:30
Friday, April 1, 2011
Graduate Student Round Table, April 1, 2011
Please RSVP By March 28.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26
RADICAL AND RESPONSIBLE GENDER
A WORKSHOP FACILITATED BY
SINCLAIR SEXSMITH
1 – 4 PM | Hall of Languages 102
Co-sponsored by Syracuse University LGBT Resource Center, Pride Union and QuERI
