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.
