WATCH: Welcoming Schools Videos for Elementary

See how Welcoming Schools improves school climate and academic achievement.

What Do You Know?

An award winning short film produced by HRCF Welcoming Schools for elementary school educators and parents/caregivers featuring students from Alabama and Massachusetts discussing what they know about LGBTQ+ people, what they hear at school and how teachers can help.

What I Need To Succeed At School

Children of LGBTQ parents as well as trans and non binary youth discuss how they can best be supported in education.

What Can We Do?

Watch as educators model how to engage students in real conversations about bias-based bullying and standing up for each other with HRC Welcoming Schools lesson plans. Watch the 3-Minute trailer.

What is Gender?

This two-minute animated video and accompanying discussion guide created in partnership between the HRCF Welcoming Schools program and Advocates for Youth helps early learners understand the complexities of gender, gender identity, gender expression and gender stereotypes in a developmentally appropriate way.

The ABCs of SOGIE

This two-minute animated video and accompanying discussion guide created in partnership between the HRCF Welcoming Schools program and Advocates for Youth helps early learners understand the complexities of SOGIE (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression).