My-ID project in high schools

The My-ID project was an elaboration of the GALE "My-ID" educating pedagogy to the high school sector. The "My-ID" method is based on an analysis of heteronormativity and evidence-grounded methods to educate in a way which really changes negative attitudes and the underlying negative emotions towards gender and sexual diversity. The project ran from 30 November 2021 until 30 November 2023.

Strategy

The project employs three key strategies to support high schools in implementing the My-ID method:

1. Developing concrete classroom activities to integrate in a spiral curriculum; a compendium with classroom activities (EN, NL, ES, IT, GR) and a guide on how to use such activities (EN, NL, ES, IT, GR)
2. Training to empower teachers; a guide for trainers on how to develop a training (EN, NL, ES, CAT, IT, GR) and a background reader (EN, NL, ES, IT, GR)
3. Guidance on how to inform and mentor parents; a guide on how to reach out to parents (EN, NL, CAT), a model-brochure for school parents (EN, NL, ES, IT, GR) and a leaflet for parents in general (EN, NL, ES, IT, Greek, Arabic , Catalonian, Turkish, Romanian, Chinese). Regrettably, some of the versions of the outreach guide to parents are not published here because GALE could not agree with their contents.

More information

• The My-ID project website
• Like the My-ID Facebook page
• Like the DUTCH Mijn-ID Facebook page
• Programma Mijn-ID mini-conferentie 16 november (Amsterdam); program My-ID mini conference 16 November 2023. De mini-conferentie moest helaas worden afgelast wegens te weinig aanmeldingen.
• My-ID impact evaluation report (January 2024)
  

News

• 4 December 2023 My-ID project publishes guides for schools on how to cooperate with parents on sexual and gender diversity
• 24 August 2023 New take on LGBTIQ+ teacher training
• 27 juli 2023 My-ID compendium with classroom activities available
• 15 November 2022 Second day of #My-ID teacher training: working with the taxonomy of #Krathwohl
• 6 May 2022 The My-ID project team poses after the first face-to-face transnational project meeting in Città di Castello
• 25 April 2022 My ID to Be Myself: a Transformation of Schools from Disciplinary Knowledge Factories to Cooperative Spaces for Emotional Self-Development and Activism (in: Transformative Education: Meanings and Policy Implications, page 33-54

Partners

The project is implemented by 10 partners:

1. Hallgarten-Franchetti Foundation, study centre Villa Montesca (Italy, Città di Castello; coordinator)
2. CESIE Italy, Palermo)
3. GALE (international, based in the Netherlands, Amsterdam)
4. Iedersland College (Netherlands, Amsterdam)
5. EUROTraining (Greece, Athens)
6. Doukas College (Greece, Athens)
7. DEFOIN (Spain, Málaga)
8. Jaume Viladoms College (Spain, Sabadell)
9. Scuola Alighieri Pascoli Città di Castello (Italy, associated partner)
10. I.I.S. Liceo Città di Piero Sansepolcro (Italy, associated partner)