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School leaders need to advocate for policies to include a queer-inclusive curriculum. A gay-straight alliance is an extra-curricular group that promotes diversity and supports gender and/or sexually diverse students. Schools need to support GSD in the curriculum and resources. GSD needs to be a priority for schools to include for gender and/or sexually diverse students to feel welcome.  \nIt is crucial for gender and sexual diversity (GSD) to be seen, taught, and accepted within schools. School divisions need to understand why GSD needs to be acknowledged in schools. School leaders play an important role in changing school policies so that a queer-inclusive curriculum is taught (Steck & Perry, 2017) . A gay-straight alliance is a positive extra-curricular group that can help students who are gender and/or sexually diverse feel supported. Educators can take many steps to make certain their classrooms and schools promote diversity. GSD is often not visibly identifiable within schools, and teachers need to be consciously aware of how to represent them appropriately. GSD needs to be viewed as a priority for schools to include within all aspects of the school.  \nAcknowledgement of Gender and/or Sexual Diversity  \nResearch affirms that GSD must be acknowledged in schools. Gender and/or sexually diverse students face many challenges (Arora, Kelly, & Goldstein, 2016) . Every student needs to feel “included, protected and respected” (Saskatchewan Ministry of Education, 2015, p. 1) . School leaders in divisions need to advocate for changes related to how GSD is represented in schools. They play a large role in whether a division supports GSD in the curriculum. Schools have a responsibility to accept that GSD needs to be addressed.  \nSchools need to recognize the challenges that gender and/or sexually diverse students may face, and understand why GSD should be embraced in schools. The challenges can include “frequent harassment, victimization, and discrimination” (Arora et al. , 2016, p. 722) . These students are at a higher risk of being bullied by their peers, and then “engaging in dysfunctional behavioural patterns as a means of coping with peer abuse” (Crothers et al. , 2017, Introduction section, para. 4) . Human rights laws “prohibit discrimination based on an individual’s gender identity, sexual preference and/or orientation” (Saskatchewan Ministry of Education, 2015, p. 4) . Students who do not feel accepted or safe struggle to learn and feelgood about themselves (Saskatchewan Ministry of Education, 2015) . Creating an environment that is comfortable discussing, accepting, and acknowledging GSD can create “levels of empathy and compassion” among students (Steck & Perry, 2017, “Benefits,” para. 4) . GSD needs to be incorporated to address the challenges that gender and/or sexually diverse students encounter.  \nSchool leaders play a vital role in how school policies inhibit GSD (Steck & Perry, 2017) . Gender and/or sexually diverse students often “walk through space and curriculum unnoticed”(Schmidt, 2015, p. 269) . School leaders are tasked with providing gender and/or sexually diverse students with a “safe and inclusive school environment” (Steck & Perry, 2018, Introduction section, para. 1) . Teachers may want to include queer content into their teaching, but they need a school division that will support them. Leaders also play a large role in“disrupting school policies” to include queer-content in the curriculum and course materials (Steck & Perry, 2017, Abstract) . Many schools have accepted GSD at an extra-curricular level  \n(Schmidt, 2015) . Anti-bullying assemblies, bullying policies, and gay-straight alliances are fairly common in schools (Schmidt, 2015) . However, it is the “curriculum, pedagogy, learning, teaching” aspect of school that ","cbCaivlCX7NGs60q","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivlCX7NGs60q","pdf",137171,"English","# Gender and Sexual Diversity in Schools\n## Inclusion, acceptance, and curriculum inclusion\n## Acknowledgement of gender and/or sexual diversity\n## Challenges and human-rights protections\n## School leadership and policy reform\n## The role of gay-straight alliances","[{\"question\":\"What does the document say schools should do to support gender and sexual diversity (GSD)?\",\"answer\":\"It calls for GSD to be identifiable, taught in the curriculum, and accepted in schools, supported by inclusive resources and practices. 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