Bullying
Students must feel safe to learn. It takes a commitment from all school community members –– from administrators to teachers to cafeteria workers to families –– to create welcoming and safe schools for all children. Welcoming Schools resources proactively address the biased behavior that can lead to bullying.
Welcoming Schools offers recommended booklists, lesson plans and additional resources to proactively address bullying behavior and foster allyship. With Welcoming Schools professional development, educators can gain the knowledge and skills to intervene in and to prevent bullying behavior.
Lesson Plans to Prevent Bias-Based Bullying
Welcoming Schools teacher-friendly lesson plans are designed to help educators create inclusive classrooms and schools using an anti-racist, intersectional lens. Most bullying is based on biases, stereotypes and prejudice. These…
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What Do You Say to ‘That’s So Gay’ & Other Anti-LGBTQ+ Comments?
It doesn’t matter if it’s a first grader who might not know what the word “gay” means, a sixth grader trying to sound cool, or a tenth grader “teasing” a…
Welcoming Schools Book Lists: Diverse Children’s Books to Prevent Bias-Based Bullying
Welcoming Schools book lists are designed to help educators create inclusive classrooms and schools using an anti-racist, intersectional lens. Most bullying is based on bias. These books will not only…
WATCH: What Can We Do? Bias, Bullying & Bystanders
In What Can We Do? students share put-downs that they hear in school:
“You’re gay.”“Your skin is too brown.”“Your religion is fake.”“Estúpido.”
Watch as educators model how to engage students…
Sticking Up For Each Other: Books Highlighting the Power of Allies
Find books featuring children becoming allies. These books could be paired with the Welcoming Schools lesson plan, Making Decisions: Ally or Bystander.
Six Key Points on Bullying, Bias, and Schools
(With some research to back them up.)
Qué Responder al Comentario: “Es Tan Gay”
No importa si es un estudiante de primer grado que no sabe lo que significa la palabra “gay,” un estudiante de sexto grado que intenta lucir genial o un estudiante…
Professional Development Training for Your School: On-Site or Virtual – Gender & LGBTQ+ Inclusive
HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools program has certified facilitators across the country ready to work with your school or district to improve school climate with gender and LGBTQ+ inclusive trainings. See…
Looking at Skin Color with Books
Download Looking at Skin Color with Books
Lesson Plans to Prevent Bias-Based Bullying
Welcoming Schools teacher-friendly lesson plans are designed to help educators create inclusive classrooms and schools using an anti-racist, intersectional lens. Most bullying is based on biases, stereotypes and prejudice. These…
Great Books for Engaging Students on Preventing Bullying and Bias
Download Top RecommendationsDownload an Extended List of Picture BooksDownload an Extended List of Middle Grade Books