Hi Sam
Teaching youth through play.
Funded by the Québec Ministry of Justice (ministère de la Justice du Québec), the pilot project Hi Sam: Sensitizing Youth Through Play aims to help teachers who have to address issues surrounding gender identity, roles, stereotypes, and norms in elementary schools.
More specifically, it consists of a comprehensive pedagogical guide and three short videos that accompany the educational tool Sam and facilitate the creation of a safer space for discussion on the journeys of trans and gender creative children and youth.
Our pedagogical guide serves multiple purposes and is in itself a source of very relevant information for many audiences. The first part provides a broad overview of the issues surrounding trans, non-binary and gender creative children and youth, while the second part offers educational activities that are easy to facilitate with elementary school-aged children using our education tool Sam.
You don't have a Sam? No worries! Our guide was also designed to be used without Sam. In any case, don't wait to receive a Sam to stop transphobia before it starts!
The guide, as well as the accompanying short videos, were co-constructed in collaboration with a magnificent committee of experts without whom these tools would not have seen the light of day. This committee is composed of people who have a personal and/or professional expertise, may they be researchers, teachers, students, parents, youth or at the intersection of these different identities. This collaborative work has allowed us to create tools that are representative not only of the experiences of trans, non-binary and gender creative children and youth, but also of the specific needs of teachers in Québec.
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The Hi Sam training
Upcoming trainings are announced on Zeffy.