Mariana Dale covers early childhood for the LAist and KPCC newsroom.
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Tooley is part of a task force within the teachers union to develop new ways to support queer students and educators and advocate for their needs during upcoming contract negotiations. In E.’s school, she says gay educators feel like they need to be loud to get support. She’s seen more teachers share that they’re LGBTQ+, but it’s been coupled with more incidents of sexual harassment, specifically around homophobic terms.
That’s why, in her 15-year career, Nuss has worked to get all kids excited about education. That also translates to her work on the union’s equity team where Nuss has been working with her union on contract language to bolster equity and inclusion for teachers.Nuss is one of the only public lesbian educators in her small Antelope Valley school district.
Though she is now at a new school, Nuss said she feels like she’s been labeled as a “gay troublemaker teacher” because of her past and inclusion of LGBTQ+ sources in her curriculum. But she believes that teaching students about people with different genders and sexualities helps save lives.— Erica Nuss, sixth grade teacher, Antelope Valleya 24% reduced risk for suicide.
“I worry that the way that I teach is going to somehow get spun by the community that I work in,” Nuss said. “Yet no matter how many hours a week or month I spend thinking about whether to do it or not, I feel like I have to.”erupted after the Glendale Unified School District announced it would recognize Pride Month, something it had done for four years.
“I was reluctant to even believe that it was happening,” the educator said. “To see that kind of animosity, that kind of tension and, you know, just the things students were saying to each other was really unfortunate.” “I do love being here,” he said. “It’s a safe city, but I just have to work harder to make everyone feel safe and welcomed.”
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