Safe Is Not Enough, Michael Sadowski
Safe Is Not Enough, Michael Sadowski
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Safe Is Not Enough
Better Schools for LGBTQ Students

Author: Michael Sadowski, Kevin Jennings

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/26/2021


Synopsis

Safe Is Not Enough illustrates how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities.

Using examples from classrooms, schools, and districts across the country, Michael Sadowski identifies emerging practices such as creating an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum; fostering a whole-school climate that is supportive of LGBTQ students; providing adults who can act as mentors and role models; and initiating effective family and community outreach programs.

While progress on LGBTQ issues in schools remains slow, in many parts of the country schools have begun making strides toward becoming safer, more welcoming places for LGBTQ students. Schools typically achieve this by revising antibullying policies and establishing GSAs (gay-straight student alliances). But it takes more than a deficit-based approach for schools to become places where LGBTQ students can fulfill their potential. In Safe Is Not Enough, Michael Sadowski highlights how educators can make their schools more supportive of LGBTQ students' positive development and academic success.

About Michael Sadowski

Michael Sadowski is an award-winning writer and author of several books, including In a Queer Voice, Safe Is Not Enough, and Adolescents at School. He is an administrator and professor at Bard College.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on December 22, 2016

Amazing and essential for educators and families. Safe truly IS not enough, and this text outlines what it looks like to have truly inclusive schools for LGBTQ students - from the school building, to the curriculum, to silence-free schools, to real inclusiveness, to teachers and mentors, to leadersh......more

Goodreads review by Dan on June 10, 2023

When it comes to addressing LGBTQ issues, teachers and administrators often draw an imaginary line between middle and high school students, assuming either that the former are not mature enough to handle them or that their parents and guardians will object to eleven-, twelve-, and thirteen-year-olds......more

Goodreads review by Guts on August 19, 2020

A really great book on this subject. It helped me tremendously when I wanted to look for ways we can improve the schools for LGBTQ+ students. The book features many case studies which you can use as examples or models to follow. It gave me a lot to think about, especially on how schools can progress......more

Goodreads review by Alexis on April 18, 2022

Does a credible job of outlining what LGBTQIA+ students (and sometimes faculty) experience in schools (primarily in the U.S.) via a pedagogical and school-safety lens. It served me well as I was writing my dissertation and lent to my paragraphs on classroom/school environments, dangers therein, etc.......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on August 29, 2016

This book begged to be written! It lends important credibility, ease of access, and attention to a topic which desperately needs to be addressed across all schools. This is a very easy to read book, set up as a series of straight forward, general case studies of people doing the work right now. My c......more