How do we build inclusive classrooms?
Hope in a Box equips educators with LGBTQ-inclusive curricula, training, and mentorship. Together, we use literature to cultivate empathy and ensure every LGBTQ student feels safe, welcome, and included at school.
What’s inside Hope in a Box?
Educators’ Circle
Partners will be selected to join an "Educator Community," which meets four times an academic year via Zoom to discuss queering education across school contexts and grade levels. This experience is designed for anyone of any identity, knowledge level, and role as an educator (e.e., teachers, counselors, librarians, etc. of any grade)
Capacity Building for Schools Under Fire
Advocates' expert staff will work with educators and school personnel to build capacity in school districts that have experienced homophobic and/or transphobic attacks.
Intensive Training
Experts will work closely with educators to integrate books into their libraries and/or English literature/Language Arts curriculum.
“My own students have been as excited as I am to open Hope in a Box, and I am thrilled! There is such a need for inclusive and accepting literature. Books heal. Books offer hope. Books can speak to the soul the way no living human can. This collection is a treasure. I wish we had a dozen sets! This is such a gift.”
“From the second I saw The Miseducation of Cameron Post on the shelf, I wanted to read it. I was expecting the typical story of the atrocities committed in conversion schools (where they “heal” LGBT people), but what I got was something different. I related to Cameron. I know how it feels to have been confused and feel like I need to hide who I truly am from everyone. When I got to the end of this book, I felt so happy that there was a book like this in the world for people like me to read.”
Hope in a Box is supported, in part, by the generosity of Gay Real Estate.
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