Parents/Caregivers
Welcoming Schools knows that providing resources to parents and caregivers helps create an affirming and welcoming school. Do you need help working with your school to support your non-binary child? Does your child have a friend who has two dads? Do you want to read some books with your child that have LGBTQ or transgender characters?
Welcoming Schools provides families with the tools they need to embrace teachable moments and to be prepared to answer important questions about LGBTQ and gender topics at home with their children and within their school community.
Celebrating Inclusive Mother’s Day & Father’s Day
As we celebrate and honor caregivers in schools, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day can be opportunities to recognize the diversity of family structures.
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A Parent’s Quick Guide for In-School Transitions
Parents and caregivers may find themselves, depending on circumstances, having to play a more active role in “educating the educators” as to what the school needs to do to support…
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…
“¡Si, son una familia!”
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WATCH: 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…
Gender Support Checklist for Transgender and Non-Binary Students
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Gender and Children: A Place to Begin
Creating schools that nurture academic achievement, provide physical and emotional safety and welcome all students are common goals for all educators. In order for students to feel supported and empowered…
Educators & Caregivers Booklists
LGBTQ+ Topics in Schools
The Educator’s Guide to LGBT+ Inclusion: A Practical Resource for K-12 Teachers, Administrators, and School Support Staff. Kryss Shane. 2020.
Gender Diversity and LGBTQ Inclusion in…
Great Diverse Books Featuring Two Moms & Two Dads
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"Yes, They Are a Family!"
Children ask questions to understand the world around them. Be prepared with these sample responses about family.
Affirming Gender in Elementary School: Social Transitioning
One of the first steps that all people—adults or children—take, if they feel their internal sense of gender and their sex assigned at birth do not match, is to socially…