Recent Accomplishments
BVSSC Accomplishments 2010-2011
“Faces & Facets of Transgender Experience” DVD and discussion guide: premiered by PFLAG, shown to DLT, New Vista students, Fairview students (short version); added to BVSD MediaCAST.
Collaboration/events: Caitlin Ryan events/contribution $500, Lafayette Cesar Chavez Celebration;
PEN luncheon contribution $200; Riggle and Rostosky event: Celebrating Queer Identities: Living
Great, Being Terrific on Oct. 15, planning with Out Boulder, CU GLBT Resource Center, PEN,
PFLAG-Boulder, Boulder County Public Health/OASOS.
Website: up-to-date, useful, dynamic, comprehensive
Transgender Guide for Schools & Parents: started/developed an initial approach.
GSA/Diversity Student groups: worked with Monarch HS Day of Silence t-shirts, Broomfield HS,
Manhattan Allies, Louisville Middle Kaleidoscope; donated Celebrate Diversity pins to Broomfield
High and Manhattan Middle, Manhattan Day of Silence all-school assembly, Boulder County GSA
Summit
Schools: Fairview HS Multi-year Project: taught all 9 health sections/1 regular & 1 block class spring
semester (meeting health curriculum objectives), planning 3 staff trainings, began planning with Parent
Engagement Network (PEN) to work with parents; Manhattan MS; Creekside Elementary: planning to
address issues raised by student/parents; New Vista HS – one week on trans
Language Arts/Libraries/Reading: My Princess Boy and Tango Makes Three to all elementary
libraries/purchased by Boulder County Public Health; contact with Angel Stobaugh to recommend
books for approved Language Arts list; offer to buy sets if teacher wants to use; working on getting a
LGBT novel read in middles schools (starting with Manhattan).
Equity Advisory Committee representative: previously Kappy Hall, now Melissa Marsh
Youth Leadership Institute: cosponsored day at CU and assisted with tasks
Interview/Candidate Forums: Superintendent, Human Resources, Aspen Creek Principal, Aspen Creek
AP, Eisenhower Principal, Director of Fine Arts, PE/Health, Nederland HS/MS AP, Monarch HS AP,
Arapahoe Ridge HS AP, Centennial MS AP, Boulder HS AP
Heard from/responded to families w/ bullying/harassment/climate issues; working out process for how
to handle these.
Self-education: CU Bystander training, Safe Schools Conference, Individual and Institutional Change
Models
Incorporation/application for 501(c)3 status of Boulder County Safe Schools (BVSSC and SVSSC)
Chris King as liaison moved things forward, was very supportive, a good gatekeeper who connected
us, Blog about Lesbian/Gay youth suicides, added BVSSC to interview teams.
Recruited 8 new members to join BVSSC
Historic Accomplishments
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