Pinterest Can Help Teachers Cook a Casserole, but What About LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Lesson Plans?

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Abstract

In the 21st century, finding a lesson plan as a new teacher is as simple as typing in “I need a lesson plan on …” Popular websites such as Pinterest, Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT), Share My Lesson (SMP), Education.com, and ReadWriteThink (RWT) offers many free lessons. These online resources enable educators a quick and efficient ability to construct curricula on a teacher’s salary. The objective of this paper is to analyze how websites such as these represent LGBTQIA+ inclusivity lesson plans for new educators who are looking to build a curriculum that is culturally competent and relevant to LGBTQIA+, mainly when members of that group are students of Color.

Author

• Denise Villarrial Nealon, San Diego State University