PRESS RELEASE: Learn.UnErased.org digital platform is providing K-12 schools with LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum and supports both traditional and online teaching and learning.

PRESS RELEASE: History UnErased will continue into its fourth year of providing the New York City Department of Education with LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum and virtual Professional Development Institutes.

In September 2019, the NCSS Board of Directors approved a position statement that was co-authored with Debra Fowler, Co-founder & Executive Director of History UnErased, and Dr. Steven LaBounty-McNair, Executive Board Chair of History UnErased. Like History UnErased, we want to make sure that the students and educators who come after us are not just better off, but are better than us, better at understanding, better at empathy, better at creating a world where all people belong.

State directives to teach LGBTQ history are a “great mark of progress” but create “an illusion that the policies have been implemented,” says Debra Fowler, co-author of the NCSS’s position statement on LGBTQ history and the co-founder and Director of Development of History UnErased, offering LGBTQ-inclusive history curriculum. “This is a long game,” says Fowler. “We probably will never live to see our mission truly fulfilled.”

The first three words of the United States Constitution — “We the People” — proclaim who is enacting the nation’s most important document. Yet as I progressed through my education, the “people” read about, the “people” who belonged in society, were lectured upon, revered, and who shaped the nation as I knew it, did not include people like me or Mr. Buttigeig, members of the LGBT+ community.