Gender
When students feel safe to express their identities across the gender spectrum, they will be more prepared to learn and thrive in your school.
Welcoming Schools offers teacher-friendly resources designed to help educators create classrooms and schools that are free of gender stereotypes and gender norms that limit all children.
Welcoming Schools has resources that schools can use to help students understand transgender and non-binary people and to support and affirm all students’ identities across the gender spectrum.
Professional Development Training for Your School: Virtual or On-Site
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…
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Why Welcoming Schools Professional Development
HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools is the most comprehensive, bias-based bullying prevention program in the nation to provide LGBTQ and gender inclusive professional development training, lesson plans, booklists and resources specifically…
Welcoming Schools' Safe School Signs
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VIDEO: Welcoming Schools - 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.
VIDEO: Find Out How Two Moms Took on Trolls to Support an LGBTQ Kid
After a national anti-LGBTQ hate group bullied a young transgender girl in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, her community rallied behind her by hosting a community reading of "I Am Jazz" by…
Transgender and Non-Binary Children: Books to Help Adults Understand
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Training Modules Available for Professional Development
HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools Certified Facilitators are located across the country. They offer practical and interactive professional development to create gender and LGBTQ inclusive schools using the following Welcoming Schools…
Summary of Supportive Federal Laws and Constitutional Rights for Transgender & Non-binary Students
First Amendment
The First Amendment protects both freedom of speech and expression.Schools may not restrain student speech unless it will reasonably substantially disrupt the school environment or harm others.1Schools cannot…
Seal of Excellence for a Welcoming School
Welcoming Schools permits us to envision our students as their best selves now and also who they will be 15 years from now, as they are leaders in academics but…
Professional Development Training for Your School: Virtual or On-Site
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…
LGBTQ History & Pride: Engaging Lessons and Books
Learn about prominent LGBTQ people and about historical events that were part of the LGBTQ civil rights movement with these lessons and books.