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In this regular feature, we explore the work of pro  \nfessional educators—their accomplishments and their challenges—so that the  \nlessons they have learned can benefit students  \nacross the country. After all, listening to the professionals who do this work every day is a blueprint for success.  \nBy Taica Hsu  \nGrowing up, I always wanted to become a teacher. As a  \nprecocious 8-year-old, I remember tutoring my friends  \nin math. I loved helping them learn. In high school, I  \neven started a tutoring program, and I participated in my school’s peer counseling program.  \nWhile I dreamed of being an educator, I had no idea that one  \nTaica Hsu teaches mathematics and serves as the faculty advisor for the Queer Straight Alliance at Mission High School in the San Francisco Unified School District.  \nday I’d serve as an advisor to the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) where I taught. In high school, I knew I was gay, but I did not feel supported enough to come out to my friends and family. It wasn’t until college that I felt comfortable telling others about my sexuality.  \nI came out during my first year at Dartmouth College. I also decided to put aside my dreams of teaching. I thought I wanted to be a doctor. I think I felt pressure to pursue a career like medicine, business, or law because society respects those professions more than teaching.  \nBut by my sophomore year, I started taking education classes and changed my major to education. After I graduated from  \n20 AMERICAN EDUCATOR | WINTER 2016–2017  \nDartmouth in 2006, I attended the Stanford Teacher Education Program, where I earned my license to teach mathematics in California. In 2007, I did my student teaching at Mission High School, a very racially and ethnically diverse school in San Francisco, and I’ve been a math teacher there ever since. (For more on Mission, see page 15.)  \nConnecting with the GSA  \nFor nearly 10 years, I have been the school’s GSA advisor, which has been incredibly rewarding. I first became interested in helping the group when I was a student teacher. I would attend meetings throughout the year, and I got to know the students and the teacher then advising them. That teacher left when I became anew teacher at Mission. Colleagues told me not to take on too manythings my first year, but the GSAwas really important to me, and I decided to become the advisor.  \nA Gay-Straight Alliance empowers students to stand up for who they are.  \nStudents really make the group their own. They take on leadership positions and take ownership of the club, and it has become avery supportive space for alot of students. During my first couple of years, teachers would refer students to the GSA when they would say homophobic things or do things that were insensitive toward the LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/ questioning, plus) community. (I always include “+” because I think this movement should be as inclusive as possible.) And so, the GSA also became a place where students could learn from what we were doing.  \nI remember one student in particular who was referred by a teacher to the GSA for calling another student gay. Instead of calling his parents, the teacher told him to attend a GSA meeting to learn why such speech is not OK. Although he was required to attend only once, he was really drawn into the group and kept coming all year. The members of the GSA were kind and welcoming, and they educated him about LGBTQ+ issues. He became a strong ally for our community the rest of his time at Mission.  \nHaving a group where students feel supported and free to discuss identity in a way they might not be able to in other spaces in s","cbCaijicTNEx1hfs","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijicTNEx1hfs","pdf",281616,"English","# Connecting with the GSA\n# A Celebration of Drag","[{\"question\":\"Who is the educator and what role does she play at the school?\",\"answer\":\"She is a mathematics teacher and the faculty advisor for the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). Her role includes giving feedback and helping with logistics for schoolwide events.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the GSA support LGBTQ+ students and allies?\",\"answer\":\"The GSA empowers students to stand up for who they are and provides a supportive space for discussion of identity. 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