Your lesson, should you chose to accept it, is to create relevant, body-centered, and inclusive lessons that give students opportunities to feel optimistic for the future.

The Special Agent assigned to help you with this task is Lewis Maday-Travis, a middle school science teacher currently taking time off to write curriculum and provide professional training around inclusive classrooms, from Seattle, Washington.

Links mentioned in the episode (chronological):

• More "Ambitious Science Teaching" information and Lewis' lessons
• The photo of the dalmatian (from blog post "Think like an expert: teaching kids to see the big picture, Part 1")
• Brave Conversation Skills Handout (from blog post "Holding brave conversations, in and outside the classroom")
• Note to educators: hope required when growing roses in concrete by Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade
• "How one transgender teacher came out to his students" (KUOW article)
• Inclusive sex ed language checklist (originally AIDS Community Care Montreal & SextEd)

You can contact Lewis at [email protected] and check out his blog at https://fishyteaching.com.