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Rainbow Teachers

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PPTA's Rainbow Taskforce for Safe Schools has been operating for about 14 years. Its job is to help make secondary schools safe and welcoming places for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex students, family/whanau members and teachers.

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Affirming diversity: inclusion for sexuality and gender minorities (pdf | 280 KB) Affirming diversity of sexualities and gender identities in the school community (pdf | 214 KB) LGBTIQ+ Case Studies (pdf | 74 KB) Homophobia (2012) (pdf | 33 KB) PPTA-Rainbow-Network-Newsletter-.pdf (pdf | 552 KB)
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Inclusion and diversity workshops

November 1, 2024

Information about 'Safer schools for all' workshops

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Members of the Rainbow taskforce

November 1, 2024

Contact the Rainbow taskforce

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Keep in touch

December 5, 2022

We have an email network and a Facebook group, join us and keep in touch.

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Queer students

Affirming diverse sexualities and genders in schools

Liz Robinson  -  May 26, 2017

The PPTA has launched an updated and refreshed set of guidelines for schools to help them create a safe and affirming environment for all students. PPTA…

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