No Name-Calling Week 2017: January 16-20

Kindness in Action!

We celebrate kindness by putting it into action! Every year for No-Name Calling Week, GLSEN provides students and educators with the tools and inspiration to launch an on-going dialogue about ways to challenge bullying and name-calling in their communities. 

This No Name-Calling Week begins on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and ends on the Presidential Inauguration. It is an important opportunity to show allyship to LGBTQ students, particularly transgender and gender nonconforming (GNC) students, as well as LGBTQ students of color.

Motivated by the simple, yet powerful, idea — and supported by over 60 national partner organizations — No Name-Calling Week is celebrated each year in schools across the nation. 

Join us in celebrating No Name-Calling Week January 16-20, 2017. Whether you’re a teacher, student, community organizer, bus driver, guidance counselor, coach, or librarian, show you care by organizing a week of activities at your school aimed at ending name-calling once and for all. Register to receive updates and offers!

Plan a week in your school.

Use our planning tools to help in your preparations.

Put kindness in action through lessons and activities.

We have plans for elementary, middle, or high schools.

 

Are you a middle or high school student? Check out GLSEN's student actions to see how you can get involved in putting kindness into action! 

Create Action Through Art!

Making art can be a political action as well as a deeply personal expression of identity and experience. Learn about and submit to the No Name-Calling Week Creative Expression Exhibit.

 

Check out some of our highlights from 2016's Creative Expression here.

The SERC Library will be CLOSED on Thursday, December 29th!  We are not open on Friday, December 30th or Saturday, December 31st.  Resources that were due to the Library will now be due on Wednesday, January 4th and RESERVES will be held until Wednesday, January 4th.  The Library will reopen on Tuesday, January 3rd at 8:30 am.

FROM the SERC LIBRARY STAFF!

The SERC Library will be CLOSED on Saturday, December 17th!  Resources due on the 17th will be extended until Wednesday, December 21st.  The Library will be open Tuesday and Wednesday evening until 6:30 pm.

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Holiday Resources We're celebrating December with these holiday–themed resources. Use our printables, lessons, and activities to show students how the December holidays of Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and the New Year are celebrated. Sign up for a 7-day free trial, and these resources are yours to keep! Holiday Resources Christmas

Christmas is celebrated on December 25. Experience the joy with your students, using these Christmas lesson plans, activities, printables, and skill builders. You can discuss the religious and cultural meaning behind Christmas in your social studies class, create holiday crafts and decorations for art class, and read Christmas books in reading class.  Christmas Resources Hanukkah Hanukkah, the "Festival of Lights," starts on the December 24 and lasts for eight days and nights. Explore the rich traditions and history of Hanukkah with our lessons, printables, activities, and resources. Your students will enjoy learning the meaning behind the holiday, creating their own dreidels, writing holiday poems, taking Hanukkah-themed quizzes, and more!  Hanukkah Resources Behavior Management From behavioral observation to conflict resolution, these printables and articles will help you manage classroom discipline. You'll find advice for handling disruptive behavior and environmental interventions for minimizing its effect on other students. Our forms and charts are excellent tools for documenting and tracking your students' behavior.  Behavior Management Resources

K-12 Science Competion

Dear Educator,

How are you challenging your STEM students this year? For 25 years, Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision has encouraged teams of K-12 students and teachers to create future technologies that improve society—all while aligning with the Next Generation Science Standards. Winning teams receive $10,000 U.S. Savings Bonds, an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. to present their ideas to scientific leaders and more.

All K-12 students and teachers in the U.S. and Canada are eligible for ExploraVision. Register now!

Teach younger students the engineering process and help older students prepare for college with ExploraVision. Not only does it give your students an exciting, hands-on learning experience, but teachers who coach an ExploraVision team can utilize the program broadly, incorporate the competition into their curriculum, and use it as a way to work toward the goals of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) by engaging students in problem solving and critical thinking.