Friday, April 29, 2011

Today's Meeting 4/29


Dulce Garcia, from The Outlet, spoke at our meeting today about the Outlet services and did a gender workshop with us in preparation for our meeting next Friday.

Schedule for May

Friday May 6, 2011
GSA Meeting @ Tutorial room 201
Trans Speaker: Anthony, the Director of Outlet

Saturday May 7, 2011
South Bay Gay-Straight Alliance Leadership SummitLearn essential GSA skills, make new friends, share your stories and experiences, and build the GSA movement in the East Bay!
MAKE SURE TO REGISTER BY FRIDAY, MAY 6TH AT 5PM! REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 5PM!




Friday May 13, 2011
GSA Meeting @ Tutorial room 201
Rachel Staab will be leading a special meeting in which we will make our own t-shirts for Free Hugs Day!

Friday May 20, 2011
GSA Meeting @ Tutorial room 201
HARVEY MILK EDUCATIONAL MEETING


Harvey Milk Movie Night 6pm-9pm
The LGHS GSA will be hosting a free movie night to celebrate the life and impact of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician. We will be watching "The Times of Harvey Milk" in honor of his life's work. Before we start the movie, our special guest, Simone Campbell, is going to talk about Harvey Milk and his significance today. There will be pizza, snacks, and drinks for free!

ALL YOUTH WELCOME TO THIS FREE EVENT! :D


Room 201 - Los Gatos High School
20 High School Court
Los Gatos, CA



Sunday May 22, 2011
HARVEY MILK DAY
Milk Foundation




Friday May 27, 2011
GSA Meeting @ Tutorial room 201

We're meeting up really quickly before we go out around campus in a mass to hug people for FREE HUGS DAY!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Plans for next year...

■ LGBT History Month – October
■ Ally Week – October 18-22
■ Transgender Remembrance Day – Sometime in November
■ No Name-Calling Week – January 23-27
■ Black History Month – February
■ Remembering Lawrence King – February 12
■ National Eating Disorder Awareness Week – Feb 20-24
■ Women’s History Month – March
■ Day of Silence – around 4/15
■ No Bullying Week – around D. of S.
■ Harvey Milk Day – 5/22
■ Pride (in who you are) Month - June
■ Anti-Bullying Campaign
■ Peer Mediation (CASSY)
■ DANCES
■ FREE HUGS DAYS
■ MOVIE NIGHTS

If you have any suggestions, please share them!

CASSY - Peer Mediation Group

CASSY is starting a Peer Mediation program called SCORE, which stands for Student Conflict Resolution Experts. Their "mission" is to find creative solutions to transform conflicts into understanding and learning opportunities. Conflict is a natural part of the learning process and they believe that students are responsible and capable of solving their own problems when given the opportunity.

If someone wants to get involved, they can come by house 1 or email Darin Conway at: dconway@lgsuhsd.org. She will be in touch with training details at the beginning of next year.

If someone has a conflict to report, fill out a form in House 1 or email Darin. Students can report a conflict they've witnessed anonymously or a conflict they themselves are struggling with.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

GSA & Shifting Perceptions

During lunch today, the GSA met with Shifting Perceptions to collaborate on plans for the rest of this year and next.
Here's what we went over today....

The GSA is going to do a Free Hugs Day May 27 which will be the last day of our Bully-Free Week. We are following a general plan from http://www.bullyingawarenessweek.org/ (which will we adapt appropriately to LGHS).

Along with this, we want to speak to CTE and Fisher Middle School about bullying during this week.

The GSA and Shifting Perceptions are going to meet again Next Wednesday 5/4 during lunch in room 201.
Feel free to join us and share your ideas for Bully-Free Week.