Designing a Feminist Elective for Your School (NYSAIS, April 29 2024)
Resource List
Tying it all together (Georgina Emerson's Slides)
Global Feminisms Course Website/3 Units (Invisibility, Carelessness, Normal)
Women and the American Story (New York Historical Society's initiative to provide K-12 teachers more resources about women in the past)
Resources from Ileana Jimenez's session on Centering BIPOC Voices "You rode a loop" by Rosa Alcalá (Poem from Carley Moore's Session)
Global Feminisms Course Website/3 Units (Invisibility, Carelessness, Normal)
Women and the American Story (New York Historical Society's initiative to provide K-12 teachers more resources about women in the past)
Resources from Ileana Jimenez's session on Centering BIPOC Voices "You rode a loop" by Rosa Alcalá (Poem from Carley Moore's Session)

Lessons in Transgression | |
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Teaching Queer Latina Feminist Pedagogies | |
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Say Her Name Loudly - How Black Girls are leading Black Lives Matter | |
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Workshop Overview
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, and scope and sequence tailored to their school’s program and needs. Topics include:
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Presenters
Georgina Emerson (she/her/hers) is an independent school teacher living in New York City as well as the is the founder and director of Teach About Women as well as one of our educational consultants. A native New Yorker and a graduate of the Chapin School, she holds a BA in History and MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College as well as a degree in History from L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. The focus of Georgina’s work is curriculum design and providing collaborative professional development for K-12 teachers who want to make equity work part of every aspect of school life. Follow her on social media @TeachAboutWomen and read her substack: https://teachaboutwomen.substack.com
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Carley Moore (she/her/hers) is the author of Panpocalypse, The Not Wives, 16 Pills, and The Stalker Chronicles. Carley’s debut poetry collection Heartless is forthcoming from Indolent Books. She’s a Clinical Professor of Writing and Creative Production at New York University and an Associate at The Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. Carley lives in Brooklyn with her kid and two cats. Follow her on Instagram @fragmentedsky or find her blogging on Substack.
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Ileana Jiménez (she/her/hers) known for her work as Feminist Teacher, taught English in independent schools for over 25 years. During that time, she taught high school students courses on intersectionality and women of color feminisms; queer and trans literature; Latinx literature; memoir writing; and Toni Morrison. She is currently a doctoral candidate in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she is completing her dissertation on Black and Latina feminist pedagogies, curriculum, and activism in the high school English classroom. Currently she is a member of NCTE’s 2022-24 Cultivating New Voices cohort for emerging scholars of color and is chair of NCTE’s LGBTQIA+ Advisory Committee; she also sits on the executive board of Gender and Education (GEA) based in the UK and frequently collaborates with the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) to offer teachers workshops on feminist pedagogies. In 2011, she received a Distinguished Fulbright to interview queer and trans youth in Mexico City’s high schools. Globally, she has presented workshops for teachers in Argentina, Australia, Greece, India, Mexico, and the UK. She has book chapters in Gender in an era of post-truth populism: Pedagogies, challenges and strategies (2022) and Youth Sexualities: Public Feelings and Contemporary Cultural Politics (2018), as well as articles in journals such as Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice; Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism; and Radical Teacher. She received her B.A. in English at Smith College, and an M.A. in English at Middlebury College. She can be found on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as @feministteacher.