Acknowledgments 1. Stepping Up for LGBTQ and Gender Diverse Students 2. Stepping Up as Teachers: Seeing Possibilities in Teaching and Activism 3. Stepping Up as Teachers: Understanding Impact, Knowledge, and Vulnerability 4. Stepping Up with Parents of Queer Families in Schools 5. Queer High School Students on Stepping Up: Layered Lives and Layered Advocacy 6. Stepping Up through Curriculum that is Inclusive of Sexual and Gender Diversity 7. Stepping Up with School Leaders 8. Stepping Up: What it Takes and Why it Matters List of Contributors References Index

Mollie V. Blackburn is Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University.

Caroline T. Clark is Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University.

Ryan Schey is a doctoral candidate in Adolescent, Postsecondary, and Community Literacies in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the Ohio State University. He will begin his academic career as faculty at Auburn University in the fall of 2018.

Building from ten years of collaborative longitudinal inquiry, this text shares stories from different perspectives to support teachers with concrete examples of advocacy. The authors show teachers how to 'step up' by working with students, families, and administrators to improve school culture for LGBTQ and gender diverse students.