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Help Teach About Women host a workshop for 25 high school educators! 


Designing A Feminist Elective for your School


We seem to be living in a feminist moment. But the movement’s current popularity brings with it confusing paradoxes and mixed messages. Our students are already thinking critically about identity, gender, and women’s rights. Offering a feminist or gender studies elective in your high school is an effective way to expand and deepen your school’s commitment to gender equity.


In this workshop, we invite teachers with every level of familiarity with feminist pedagogy, gender studies, and current cultural movements to join us to design the right elective for their community. There is no single course that fits the needs of every school. Rather than taking a unilateral approach that examines gender in isolation, we offer resources that take an intersectional approach that addresses overlapping systems of power that shape individual lives, especially race, class, sexuality, gender identity, religion, and country of origin.


Led by seasoned educators with deep and varied experience teaching this material to many different student populations, this workshop offers teachers tools to create an entirely new elective or supplement a current course. Participants will complete the day with a rich collection of resources as well as a draft of a course title, description, scope, and sequence tailored to their school’s program and needs.


Topics include:

  • Designing an effective scope and sequence.
  • Choosing a range of resources.
  • Applying research-based pedagogical approaches to deepen critical thinking skills.
  • Adapting the material for your classroom’s unique needs.
  • Addressing resistance from faculty, parents, and student body.
  • Case studies from established courses.


Tentative Schedule:

  1. Designing Your Scope and Sequence. (Georgina Emerson)
  2. Writing as a tool for learning. (Dr. Carley Moore)
  3. Centering BIPOC Voices in Feminist Movements. (Ileana Jimenez)
  4. Scope and Sequence Workshop. (Emerson, Moore, Jimenez)

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