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Anti-drag sentiment has negatively impacted school environments, but also has provided an opportunity to celebrate how drag pedagogy can transform school environments’ relationship to sexuality and gender expression. How drag can both be used as a tool to impact the training of educators and as a learning tool in classrooms continues to be a topic in need of research. The authors situate drag pedagogy in the current social, cultural, and political landscapes in order to argue the need for a drag-focused framework for educator preparation and school leadership programs. The authors present a framework containing four components for centralizing drag in the preparation of aspiring teachers, counselors, and school leaders. Recommendations for incorporating this framework into teacher preparation, social-emotional learning, and educational leadership are discussed.
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