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School Consultation

Engaging with Gender and Sexuality Diversity (GSD) in educational settings creates wonderful opportunities for learning and building community. And because every school is unique, getting to know the culture and essence of your community is our first priority. Only then are we able to:

Pose the right questions
Address pertinent concerns
Support what you do well
Translate the challenges you face.

Contact Team Finch Consultants

Tell us about the work you do. We can help you learn and grow in the complex, compelling realm of Gender and Sexuality Diversity (GSD).

Personalized Assessment

In order to understand the uniqueness of each school, we begin with a thorough assessment.

This process may include:

speaking/meeting with administrators
looking through policies, reports, strategic plans
examining the school website’s intentional/unintentional messaging
reviewing previous professional development efforts related to GSD
reading student, parent, faculty handbooks
assessing curriculum

Programs

Our aim is to create an open, inquisitive, environment where it is okay to know and not know, acceptable to agree and disagree, safe to take risks.

We can engage with a group of 200 or cohort of 10, providing dynamic, up-to-date programs that appeal to a range of learning styles for:

Administrative Teams
Faculty and Staff
Coaches
Residential Life
Trustees
Parents
Students
Community Members

School Visits

School visits impact learning on many levels. Being immersed in your community lets us offer immediate support and demonstrate ways to use a variety of pedagogical tools.

Invite TFC to spend the day at your school and we will:

model developmentally appropriate language and skills
read GSD books with kids
facilitate discussions in classrooms
build/test curriculum with teachers
discern what your students know and invite them to know more
meet student groups; join lunch table conversations
observe social dynamics; offer recommendations
deeply appreciate the work that you do as a school

Personalized Assessment

In order to understand the uniqueness of each school, we begin with a thorough assessment.

This process may include:

speaking/meeting with administrators
looking through policies, reports, strategic plans
examining the school website’s intentional/unintentional messaging
reviewing previous professional development efforts related to GSD
reading student, parent, faculty handbooks
assessing curriculum

Programs

Our aim is to create an open, inquisitive, environment where it is okay to know and not know, acceptable to agree and disagree, safe to take risks.

We can engage with a group of 200 or cohort of 10, providing dynamic, up-to-date programs that appeal to a range of learning styles for:

Administrative Teams
Faculty and Staff
Coaches
Residential Life
Trustees
Parents
Students
Community Members

School Visits

School visits impact learning on many levels. Being immersed in your community lets us offer immediate support and demonstrate ways to use a variety of pedagogical tools.

Invite TFC to spend the day at your school and we will:

model developmentally appropriate language and skills
read GSD books with kids
facilitate discussions in classrooms
build/test curriculum with teachers
discern what your students know and invite them to know more
meet student groups; join lunch table conversations
observe social dynamics; offer recommendations
deeply appreciate the work that you do as a school

Testimonials

Jennifer Bryan has significantly helped increase the sensitivity and sophistication of our school’s approach to gender and sexuality diversity. I especially appreciate the way Jennifer tailored presentations and guided discussions in the manner most relevant to different groups. Thanks to Jennifer’s wise counsel, our school continues to make heartening progress toward the goal of every single member of our community feeling respected and affirmed for every aspect of their identity.

John C. WarrenHead of School, St. Mark’s School, Southborough, MA

Jennifer Bryan presented to our Shady Hill School Pre-K-8 community today. First she visited classes that included our youngest lower school children and then facilitated appropriate activities in middle school classes. At the evening family presentation Jennifer poignantly integrated student schema, queries and depth of discussion from each grade. She carefully flipped behavioral realities (usually thought of as abnormal) with a sense of humor that awakened us to actual normal human behavior.

Tahira Wilson GuillermoFormer Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Shady Hill School Cambridge, MA

With graduation just weeks away, I shift the focus to a different kind of “college readiness,” one that will help my students distill the potent, sensitive and nuanced ideas surrounding gender and sexuality diversity…. I invite my former teaching colleague Jennifer Bryan in to talk with the class because I know that even if she can’t answer all of their questions, she will give them tools and language with which to think about these complex issues…. [Her] blend of theory, film clips and personal anecdotes offers students a compelling experience, confirming what they already suspect to be the truth about gender and sexuality diversity but may not yet have been able to articulate.

Nancy Henderson Former Chair, Humanities Department, Academy at Charlemont, MA

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