Summary of Listening Sessions With Trans, Nonbinary, and Affirming Students and Educators in Honor of Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) 2024
In March 2024, the U.S. Department of Education hosted listening sessions with trans, nonbinary, and affirming students and educators in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility 2024. These listening sessions culminated in this resource, which shares resources aligned with Federal guidelines and feedback gathered from participants on how schools and school districts can ensure that LGBTQI+ students and educators feel safe, valued, and included at school.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; Free to Learn ; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Lessons Learned
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 10 minutes
Free to Learn Webpage
This webpage highlights resources aligned with the U.S. Department of Education’s Free to Learn initiative which aims to support K-12 schools and institutions of higher education in understanding, implementing, and sustaining evidence-based practices and policies that support school safety, mental health, and positive school climates, and violence prevention.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Children and students with disabilities; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Free to Learn: Leading Inclusive Learning Environments in Higher Education
This guide provides leaders in higher education with resources for fostering safe and inclusive campus environments, including tools for crisis response and management, strategies for supporting individual and community resilience and recovery, and information on the civil rights obligations of institutions of higher education.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 17 minutes
Identity-Based Bullying and Mental Health Among Black and Latino Youth: The Moderating Role of Emotional Suppression
This article examines the prevalence of identity-based bullying and the links between identity-based bullying and mental health for Black and Latino youth.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, The Hackett Center for Mental Health; Texas A&M University; Montana State University
Estimated Engagement Time: 33 minutes
Families Learning From Families: Disrupting Racism at the Intersections in Schools
This webinar for families and community members shares stories, approaches, and lessons learned on advancing anti-racist practices in school communities.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Great Lakes Equity Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 11 minutes
Exploring Strategies School Systems Can Utilize to Support Black Students Who Encounter Racial Stress and Trauma
This webinar shares strategies for educators to help students navigate a culturally complex world while decreasing negative physical, emotional, and psychological outcomes.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Great Lakes Mental Health Technology Transfer Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour
Confronting Anti-Black Racism
This webpage for educators includes materials to use with middle and high school students to help them understand the history of anti-Black racism in the United States and explore ways to address it in their own communities.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: PBS LearningMedia
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Protecting Students: Race, Color, or National Origin Discrimination
This webpage provides resources related to Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 including laws, issues, case resolutions, frequently asked questions, and more.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; English learners; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Fact Sheet: Preventing Racial Discrimination in Special Education
This fact sheet provides guidance on addressing the Title VI prohibition against discrimination on the basis of race/color/national origin in the administration of special education services in public schools.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Children and students with disabilities; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Confronting Discrimination Based on National Origin and Immigration Status
This fact sheet outlines the responsibilities of public schools to provide equal access for children to enroll and participate in elementary and secondary schools without regard to their or their parents’ or guardians’ immigration status.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; English learners; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Undocumented students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division; U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
We Need Supportive Spaces That Celebrate Us: Black Girls Speak Out About Public Schools
This report offers eight recommendations that schools can implement to support Black girls and eliminate policies, attitudes, and actions that perpetuate anti-Black racism.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Education Law Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 59 minutes
Unpacking the Pennsylvania Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education Competencies
This guide explores Pennsylvania’s culturally relevant and sustaining education competencies and provides recommendations for putting each one into practice.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Teach Plus
Estimated Engagement Time: 14 minutes
Seen and Affirmed: What Black Educators and Students Need to Thrive
This article shares best practices for schools and school districts to support Black educators and students based on interviews with school leaders.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Black Educator Advocates Network
Estimated Engagement Time: 10 minutes
Practice Briefs for K-12 Educators
This webpage shares practice briefs containing current research, practical examples, reflective questions, and useful strategies for advancing racial equity.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: University of Southern California, Race and Equity Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Hmong and Latina/o/x Testimonios: The Pedagogical Space
This resource spotlights three powerful testimonies written by high school students describing the educational inequities that Hmong and Latina/o/x students experience.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Great Lakes Equity Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
“And they cared”: How to Create Better, Safer Learning Environments for Girls of Color
This guide shares common language and practices that can be used to reform exclusionary discipline policies and improve school climate to help address the needs of girls of color.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Education Trust
Estimated Engagement Time: 38 minutes
Addressing Race and Trauma in the Classroom: A Resource for Educators
This guide helps educators learn about the interplay of race and trauma and how to address its effects on students in the classroom.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Estimated Engagement Time: 16 minutes
Supporting Equal Opportunity in School Athletic Programs: A Resource for Students and Families
This fact sheet describes how Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities, including athletic programs, that receive Federal funds. The resource provides examples of situations that could constitute Title IX concerns and actions to take if someone thinks that a school is failing to provide equal opportunity under Title IX in its athletic program.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Discipline Equity for American Indian and Alaska Native Students: Recommendations for District Leaders
This report describes how exclusionary discipline practices negatively impact students, including American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students. The report shares how some states have worked to address disproportionate rates of exclusionary discipline and offers recommendations for school districts and policymakers on reducing exclusionary discipline rates among AI/AN students.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Western Educational Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 16 minutes
Welcoming Schools: Bullying Resources
This webpage for schools provides tools, lesson plans, booklists, tipsheets, and additional resources to address bias-based bullying and create LGBTQ+ inclusive environments.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Human Rights Campaign Foundation
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
LGBTQI+ Youth
This webpage for schools identifies practices for creating a safe environment for LGBTQI+ youth and how to file a complaint if a student believes they have faced discrimination at school based on sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity; because they do not conform to sex stereotypes; or for another reason.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Confronting Anti-LGBTQI+ Harassment in Schools: A Resource for Students and Families
This fact sheet for schools provides examples of the kinds of incidents the Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education can investigate as well as actions to take if a student has been treated unfairly because of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division; U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
FACT SHEET: U.S. Department of Education's 2024 Title IX Final Rule Overview
This fact sheet for schools provides an overview of the updated Title IX regulations, which strengthens vital protections for students and provides clear rules to help schools meet their Title IX obligation to eliminate sex discrimination in their education programs and activities.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
Two-Spirit and Native LGBTQ+ Youth Resources
This webpage offers a compendium of resources to support Native LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirited Youth.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Tribal Youth Resource Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
The Experiences of MENA LGBTQ Students in U.S. Secondary Schools
This report for secondary schools describes how Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) LGBTQ students experience school, including their feelings of safety, hearing biased remarks and experience with victimization based on personal characteristics, experiences with school discipline, and access to and benefit of school supports.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: GLSEN
Estimated Engagement Time: 42 minutes
Erasure and Resilience: The Experiences of LGBTQ Students of Color
These reports for schools explore the experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islander, Black, Latinx, and Native and Indigenous LGBTQ youth.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: GLSEN
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Supporting LGBTQ+ Young People With Disabilities
This guide for schools provides information on how to best support LGBTQ+ young people with disabilities and better understand the issues that impact them.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Children and students with disabilities; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Trevor Project
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Advocating for LGBTQ Students With Disabilities
This guide for educators and parents provides an overview of LGBTQ students with disabilities, as well as actionable recommendations on how to best support them. It includes a blueprint for successfully developing an Individualized Education Program for special services or a 504 plan for academic accommodations for LGBTQ students with disabilities.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Children and students with disabilities; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Human Rights Campaign Foundation; National Center for Lesbian Rights; National Association of School Psychologists; National Education Association
Estimated Engagement Time: 15 minutes
What We Wish Our Teachers Knew
This brochure, written by intersex youth, provides educators with information on the experiences of intersex students and how to best support them.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: InterACT Youth
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Supporting Intersex Students
This fact sheet for students, families, and educators provides resources to support intersex students.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
Schools in Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 Schools
This guide for school administrations, teachers, and parents shares information about how to provide safe and supportive environments for all transgender students.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Center for Lesbian Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 24 minutes
The RESPECT Workshop: Preventing Health Risks and Promoting Healthy Outcomes Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Students
This workshop for school staff offers a self-paced online professional development curriculum for addressing the needs of LGBTQ youth.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Psychological Association
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Q&A for Helping Educators and School Providers to Provide Guidance and Support for Parents and Caregivers of LGBTQ Students
This guide for school staff offers background information to engage and provide support for parents and caregivers of LGBTQ students.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Family Acceptance Project
Estimated Engagement Time: 19 minutes
Resources for Gender and LGBTQ+ Inclusive Schools
This webpage provides educators with the tools and training they need to embrace teachable moments, interrupt bias-based bullying, support transgender and non-binary students, and be prepared to answer important questions about LGBTQ+ and gender topics with students and families.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Human Rights Campaign Foundation
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
LGBTQ-Visibility and Integration in Elementary Schools
This resource for elementary educators provides tools to support creating inclusive environments. The lessons focus on name-calling, bullying and bias, LGBT-inclusive family diversity, gender diversity, and gender roles.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: GLSEN
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Developing LGBTQ-Inclusive Classroom Resources
This resource for educators provides best practices and practical strategies for creating learning environments that are safer and inclusive for LGBTQ students.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: GLSEN
Estimated Engagement Time: 12 minutes
Creating Safer Spaces in Schools for LGBTQ Young People
This infographic for schools shares practical tips and tools for creating inclusive and affirming spaces for LGBTQ+ young people.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Trevor Project
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People
This report for schools and school districts provides recent data on the experiences of young people ages 13 to 24 across the United States and provides data-driven ways to support LGBTQ+ young people.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: The Trevor Project
Estimated Engagement Time: 15 minutes
Q&A Resource on Student-Led Groups to Support LGBTQI+ Students and Allies
This fact sheet for schools and school districts provides information about the rights students have to form and participate in Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) and other similar groups.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
Departamento de Educación de los Estados Unidos: Apoyar a los jóvenes y familias LGBTQI+ en la escuela
This Spanish-language fact sheet for schools and school districts provides examples of policies and practices that can be developed to support LGBTQI+ students and families.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: Español
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 9 minutes
U.S. Department of Education: Supporting LGBTQI+ Youth and Families in School
This fact sheet for schools and school districts provides examples of policies and practices that can be developed to support LGBTQI+ students and families.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
Empathic Instruction: A Powerful Tool for Addressing Inequitable Disciplinary Actions in Schools
This resource outlines data on and impacts of race-based discipline disparities in schools. The infographic describes an intervention — the Empathic Instruction intervention — that schools and school districts can implement to disrupt bias, instill a growth mindset among teachers that positively impacts students, and reduce discipline disparities.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Leveraging Federal Funds to Disrupt Disproportionate Discipline Practices
This brief shares historical context and current data on the issue of disproportionate discipline practices in K-12 schools. The brief offers detailed guidance for addressing this issue by using Federal funds to improve equity within school discipline practices.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Western Educational Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 20 minutes
What Can Schools Do?
This webpage highlights ways that schools can promote a sense of belonging among students, including evidence-based classroom management strategies, LGBTQ+ inclusive practices, and positive youth development programs.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Dear Colleague Letter: Protecting Students From Discrimination
This letter provides leaders in education with concrete examples of unlawful discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics, including discrimination against students and school community members who are or are perceived to be Jewish, Israeli, Muslim, Arab, Sikh, South Asian, Hindu, or Palestinian.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 40 minutes
Supporting Arab American Students in Classrooms
This article highlights the experiences of Arab American students and offers strategies and tools that educators can use to foster more inclusive school environments.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Learning for Justice
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
ING Resources for K-12 Educators, Colleges, and Universities
This webpage for educators in K-12 schools and higher education hosts a collection of resources designed to foster a deeper, more nuanced understanding of Muslim and other faith-based, racial/ethnic, and cultural communities.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Islamic Network Group (ING)
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Middle East and North Africa Student Experience Panel
This webinar features a panel discussion elevating the voices and experiences of Middle Eastern and North African students.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: San Diego County Office of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 10 minutes
Identity Journeys: The South Asian American Student Experience
This webinar features a panel of South Asian high school students from across the country discussing their experiences with race, identity, and culture in schools today.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Asia Society; Center for Global Education; The Culture Tree
Estimated Engagement Time: 57 minutes
Educator Brief: Understanding & Supporting MENA & Muslim Students
This resource provides an overview of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) families and experiences along with recommendations on how to effectively support MENA and Muslim students in schools.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Immigration Initiative at Harvard, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 13 minutes
Educator Brief: Supporting Black Immigrant Students and Their Families
This resource offers information and strategies that educators can use to build understanding and implement effective supports for Black immigrant youth and families in their school communities.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Immigration Initiative at Harvard, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim? What’s the Difference?!
This article differentiates among the terms Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim and includes a classroom exercise and supplemental materials that educators may integrate into Social Studies lessons.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Teach Mideast
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
Responding to Bullying
This webpage outlines steps that adults can take to keep students safe by responding quickly and consistently to bullying behavior.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
How to Prevent Bullying
This webpage provides guidance on the roles that parents, school staff, and other caring adults can play in preventing bullying in schools.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
The Healing Classrooms Programme
This webpage highlights training opportunities and resources to support educators in developing inclusive and nurturing learning environments where refugee and asylum-seeking students can gain the necessary academic, social, and emotional skills to thrive.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: International Rescue Committee
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Serving up Tradition: A Guide for School Food in Culturally Diverse Communities
This resource provides school leaders with guidance for honoring cultural diversity in meal programs, including actionable steps and case studies.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Massachusetts Farm to School; FoodCorps Massachusetts
Estimated Engagement Time: 28 minutes
Bully Prevention Manual (Elementary Level)
This handbook provides educators and administrators with guidance and a curriculum designed to decrease bullying behavior by reframing the definition of bullying, implementing positive behavior supports, and instructing students on what bullying is and how to address it.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 42 minutes
Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention for LGBTQIA2S+ Youth
This webpage hosts a series of guides, including a foundation-setting document and four companion guides, to help educators, health care professionals, families, and communities support the mental health of LGBTQIA2S+ youth.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Suicide Prevention Resource Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
LGBTQI+ Students Online: 10 Questions to Promote Digital Health, Safety, and Citizenship
This resource provides information and a series of guiding questions to help schools consider whether their policies and climate provide a safe and supportive learning environment that supports the digital health, safety, and citizenship of LGBTQI+ students.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Uplifting Black Muslim Youth Toolkit
This toolkit provides individuals, families, and organizations, including schools, with resources for supporting Black Muslim youth.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Family & Youth Institute
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Talking to Children About Hate Crimes and Antisemitism
This fact sheet offers developmentally appropriate strategies for discussing incidents of hate crimes and antisemitism with children.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Estimated Engagement Time: 9 minutes
Teaching Materials on Antisemitism and Racism
This website shares lesson plans and resources for teaching about antisemitism, the historical intersection of racism and antisemitism, and the Holocaust.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Teaching About Judaism
This lesson plan for grades 6-12 is designed to help teachers introduce students to Judaism and its basic tenets.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute for Curriculum Services
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Shared Ancestry or Ethnic Characteristics
This website explains how Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) affords protection to students from discrimination or harassment based on actual or perceived shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics. The webpage also provides links to U.S. Department of Education policy guidance and resources regarding these Title VI protections.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Race, Color, or National Origin Discrimination: Frequently Asked Questions
The webpage offers answers to frequently asked questions about Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, addressing Federal protections for students from discrimination and harassment based on race, color, or national origin.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; English learners
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Protecting Student Mental Health in the Face of Antisemitism and Islamophobia
This article provides institutions of higher education with recommended actions for supporting student mental health amid threats to student safety based on nationality or religious affiliation. The article encourages clear communication; appropriate responses to student concerns; and the development of a positive, inclusive campus climate.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Jed Foundation
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Preventing and Responding to Bias and Hate Incidents in K-12 Educational Settings: A Toolkit for School and Community Leaders
This toolkit provides education practitioners with best practices for navigating difficult conversations, hosting solidarity events, and improving preparedness for incidents of unrest, bias, and hate crimes in school communities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources; Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Justice
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Leading Inclusive Learning Environments During the War in the Middle East: K-12 Schools
In this webinar, hosted by the U.S. Department of Education, presenters discuss laws, resources, and strategies to ensure that students of all backgrounds and ethnicities can learn in a safe, inclusive environment.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 55 minutes
Leading Inclusive Learning Environments During the War in the Middle East: Colleges and Universities
This webinar, hosted by the U.S. Department of Education, provides institutions of higher education with laws, resources, and strategies to ensure that students of all backgrounds and ethnicities can learn in a safe, inclusive environment.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 56 minutes
Jewish Americans
This lesson plan for grades 6-12 is designed to teach students about the history and diversity of the Jewish American community.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute for Curriculum Services
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
IDEALS: Bridging Religious Divides Through Higher Education
This study examines college students’ experiences with religious differences and shares how institutions of higher education can help bridge religious divides.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Interfaith America
Estimated Engagement Time: 35 minutes
How to Respond to Discrimination and Bias
This blog article provides guidance for college students for proactively addressing both experienced and witnessed instances of discrimination and bias.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Jed Foundation
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Guía de principios para la creación de entornos escolares seguros,
inclusivos, justos, y de apoyo
This Spanish-language guide shares five guiding principles that support an inclusive and positive learning environment and offers potential actions that schools and school districts can take to foster these environments. The guide also lists Federal resources that support schools and districts in ensuring a positive school climate.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: Español
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 57 minutes
Fact Sheet: Protecting Students From Discrimination Based on Shared Ancestry or Ethnic Characteristics
This fact sheet outlines the protections afforded by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for students who are or are perceived to be Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, or of another religious group.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Takes Landmark Step to Counter Antisemitism
This webpage clarifies that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits antisemitic, Islamophobic, and other related forms of discrimination in Federally funded activities. The webpage also shares the coordinated actions taken by the Biden-Harris administration to address a rise of antisemitism in the United States, including efforts by the U.S. Department of Education.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Facilitating Political Discussions
This workshop guide provides college and university leaders with resources and activities for training educators and administrators on how to facilitate politically charged conversations in a way that promotes both free expression and inclusion.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; Free to Learn
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute for Democracy & Higher Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Educators Toolkit
This website offers resources, reports, and videos to help education practitioners create inclusive, enriching learning environments for all students, especially those who are Muslim.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Educator Resources to Address Antisemitism in Public Schools
This website provides educators with resources and tools for teaching about antisemitism.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: San Diego County Office of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Dismantling Islamophobia
This article shares six strategies for preventing anti-Muslim bullying and harassment in schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Harvard Graduate School of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Dear Colleague Letter on Shared Ancestry
This letter reminds schools and institutions of higher education of their legal responsibility to provide all students with learning environments that are free from discrimination based on race, color, or national origin under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Cultural Proficiency, Diversity and Equity at North Penn School District
This webpage provides information on cultural proficiency and shares an example of one school district’s approach to valuing diversity and committing to equity.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: North Penn School District
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Countering Islamophobia - Learning for Justice
This webpage shares a lesson plan for grades 9-12 on the impacts of Islamophobia and deconstructing stereotypes and misconceptions about Muslims.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Learning for Justice
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Confronting Islamophobia: Facing History and Ourselves
This webpage provides educators with a lesson plan on the history of Islamophobia, modern manifestations and impacts, and the importance of standing up against prejudice.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Facing History & Ourselves
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Combatting Antisemitism Through Education
This resource for Washington educators and school leaders shares an overview of historical and contemporary antisemitism, Title VI protections for Jewish students and families, and educational materials for teaching about antisemitism.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Combating Discrimination Against Jewish Students
This fact sheet offers educators and leaders at state and local education agencies examples of action or inaction by school officials in addressing instances of discrimination against Jewish students that could violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Bridging Differences Playbook
This guide provides education practitioners with research-based skills and resources to foster constructive dialogue that promotes understanding across groups.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: University of California, Berkeley-Greater Good Science Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 1 minute
2022-2023 Guidelines for Respecting Religious Diversity in Montgomery County Schools
This resource outlines the policies of the Montgomery County Public Schools district for valuing and respecting religious diversity and ensuring that students are free to express their beliefs and religious practices without fear of discrimination, harassment, or bullying. The document outlines policies related to absences for religious holidays, prayer at school, religion in instructional programs, extracurricular student religious activities, and religion-related dietary restrictions.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Montgomery County Public Schools
Estimated Engagement Time: 29 minutes
Culturally Responsive Student Outcome Measures
This brief provides educators with an overview of the Culturally Responsive Education model, together with examples of culturally responsive measures that align classroom instruction, assessments, and learning outcomes with students’ local contexts and daily experiences, treating these experiences as valid and powerful sources of knowledge.
Tags:
Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 19 Comprehensive Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 15 minutes
Resources for Addressing Religious Discrimination
This webpage shares resources for education stakeholders to aid in efforts to strengthen school safety and inclusive learning environments by preventing and addressing religious discrimination.
Tags:
Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Promoting Safe and Inclusive Environments for Students of All Religious, Secular, and Spiritual Identities: K-12
This webpage offers resources for K-12 schools and school districts on promoting religious inclusion in schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Race and School Programming
This Dear Colleague Letter clarifies guidance and offers examples to support schools and school districts in understanding and complying with legal obligations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 37 minutes
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Protect LGBTQI+ Communities
This fact sheet shares recent Federal agency actions that support and protect LGBTQIA+ communities, including LGBTQIA+ students and youth.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; LGBTQIA students; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
Supporting LGBTQIA+ Communities in School
This Web page features a three-part series of guides focused on supporting LGBTQIA+ communities in school. The guides identify strategies, resources, and action items that support relationship-building and enhance advocacy efforts with LGBTQIA+ students, staff, and communities.
Tags:
Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; LGBTQIA students; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Dear Colleague Letter: Antisemitism
This Dear Colleague letter shares information on Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) and describes its mandate to provide all students, including Jewish students, a learning environment free from discrimination. The letter provides guidance for schools on responding to harassment and a hostile environment, offers relevant resources, and shares actions that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights may pursue when evaluating if a school has met its obligations under Title VI.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Racial/ethnic subgroup; Free to Learn
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism
This report details the Federal government’s comprehensive national strategy to counter antisemitism in the United States. The report describes the current landscape and recent rise of antisemitism and shares the Federal government’s four pillar approach to countering antisemitism and keeping Jewish communities safe.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Free to Learn
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 34 minutes
U.S. Department of Education Toolkit: Creating Inclusive and Nondiscriminatory School Environments for LGBTQI+ Students
This toolkit offers policies and strategies that schools and school districts can implement to create supportive, nondiscriminatory environments for LGBTQI+ students and families; examples of Federal resources that can be leveraged to implement the strategies listed; and supplemental resources to help readers access additional research and best practices.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 22 minutes
White House Toolkit on Transgender Equality
This toolkit’s first section describes challenges that many transgender students face at schools and institutions of higher education, offers examples of policies and practices that create safe and supportive learning environments for transgender students, and provides details on how the U.S. Department of Education supports transgender students who experience discrimination.
Tags:
Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; LGBTQIA students; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: The White House
Estimated Engagement Time: 18 minutes
Sexual Violence on Campus: Strategies for Prevention
This resource outlines the five components of the CDC’s framework for campus sexual violence prevention — comprehensive prevention, infrastructure, audience, partnerships and sustainability, and evaluation. The integration of all five components offers an opportunity to implement prevention efforts that have a greater impact on the prevention and reduction of sexual violence on college and university campuses.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 31 minutes
CDC’s Connecting the Dots: Understanding the Overlap Between Multiple Forms of Violence
This website provides information and tools for exploring the overlaps between multiple forms of violence and outlines efforts for collaborative prevention. The website includes an introduction to the links between multiple forms of violence, as well as opportunities for identifying shared risk and protective factors across multiple forms of violence and learning how others are using a shared risk and protective factor approach to prevent violence.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
CDC’s Select, Adapt, Evaluate: How to Use Essential Elements to Inform Violence Prevention Approaches
This website shares evidence-based approaches to violence prevention and describes how to effectively select, deliver, adapt, and evaluate violence prevention approaches to meet the unique needs of different communities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
CDC’s Dating Matters Comprehensive Teen Dating Violence Prevention Model Implementation Toolkit
Dating Matters® is a CDC-developed teen dating violence prevention model that uses evidence-based approaches to teach 11- to 14-year-olds healthy relationship skills before they start dating. This website includes everything needed to implement the model, including trainings, guidance, program materials, and other resources.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Violence Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool
This online tool is designed to assess an organization’s capacity to implement violence prevention programs, including those aimed at preventing sexual violence, intimate partner violence, youth violence, teen dating violence, or child abuse and neglect.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 20 minutes
VetoViolence Resources for Violence Prevention: Social Norms
This webpage defines social norms, describes the social norms approach to public health and violence prevention, and shares steps for creating and implementing a social norms campaign to prevent violence.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
CDC Violence Indicators Guide and Database: Measuring Your Work to Help Prevent Violence
This Web page provides an interactive guide and database, allowing violence-prevention stakeholders to explore indicators to assist with evaluation and progress monitoring of violence-prevention efforts. The website shares information on what indicators are, why they’re important, and how to select specific indicators, as well as shares a database of indicators for users to explore and identify those that best fit their program’s needs and goals.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Violence Prevention in Practice: Implementation Guidance for CDC's Technical Packages
This website is designed to help stakeholders who have a role in planning, implementing, and evaluating violence prevention efforts with selecting and implementing the strategies presented in the CDC’s technical packages to prevent or reduce violence.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
LGBTQ+ Black Youth in Schools and Communities
This webinar features a discussion on problems that Black LGBTQ students experience being marked as Black in a white supremacist society and being marked as queer in a hetero-cisnormative society. Presenters reflect upon the impacts of societal oppression on Black LGBTQ youth and offer recommendations for disrupting homophobia and transphobia in school communities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 1 minute
Moving Beyond Change Efforts: Evidence and Action to Support and Affirm LGBTQI+ Youth
This report shares a comprehensive overview of current knowledge on the health, well-being, and needs of LGBTQI+ youth. Section two of this resource describes the influences of school experiences and environments on the health and well-being of LGBTQI+ youth and shares school-based practices and programs that create safe and supportive environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 41 minutes
Interrupting Microaggressions: A Professional Learning Study Lab
This guide contains tools, videos, readings, and action plans designed to support individuals in leading professional learning sessions centered on defining, identifying, and interrupting microaggressions.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 minute
"Don’t Say Gay" Policies in Schools: A Choose Your Own Equitable Adventure
This resource explores the different ways that educators can navigate teaching in States where policies restrict discussion of non-heteronormative family structures. The resource presents a scenario; shares potential responses; and provides insight on how each response may impact students, curriculum, and overall classroom inclusivity.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
Cyberbullying in Schools: An Educator’s Equitable Choice
This resource details a cyberbullying scenario at the intersection of religion and offers educators three potential responses to the incident. The resource outlines the intents and impacts of each potential response and provides supplemental resources on equitable approaches to cyberbullying prevention and intervention.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
Cyberbullying in Schools: An Educator’s Equitable Choice — Terms and Guidance
This resource shares information on cyberbullying in schools, including definitions, laws, and examples of court cases related to cyberbullying. This resource is designed to provide background information to complement the partner resource “Cyberbullying in Schools: An Educator’s Equitable Choice.”
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
The 20-Minute Talk: Episode 2 — Antiracism in the Age of COVID-19
This podcast episode focuses on the importance of incorporating anti-racist practices in schools. The episode shares how these practices can foster safe and inclusive learning environments for students, particularly those with diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, including Black/African American and Asian American students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 20 minutes
Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings: Lakota Language & Culture in an Elementary Classroom
This webinar outlines the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings (OSEU) and explores how educators can integrate the OSEU into classroom learning experiences to honor student voices, experiences, and identities by centering Indigenous culture.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 4 minutes
Equity Connect! Centering Student Voice in Leading for Equity
This webinar, featuring Community Unit School District 308 in Oswego, Illinois, shares how this school district leveraged their partnership with the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center to more authentically center marginalized students' inputs and perspectives. Presenters highlight strategies, tools, and resources that support centering student voice in leading for equity.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 6 minutes
How to Respond to Sensitive Issues in the Classroom: A Choose Your Own Equitable Adventure
This resource details a scenario exploring the different ways educators may respond to sensitive conversations in the classroom, and the reactions and impacts different responses may elicit. Multiple resources are embedded to assist in navigating these types of conversations and to assist cultivation of critical consciousness within a caring classroom community.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Universal Design for Learning, and the Woope Sakowin (Seven Laws): Integrating Lakota Values Into the Classroom
This webinar explores the connections between the Woope Sakowin (Seven Laws) of the Lakota people and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles for honoring and engaging students and designing safe, asset-based learning environments. Presenters offer insight into how educators can integrate the Seven Laws and UDL into their teaching practices.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 1 minute
Community Stakeholder Support: Disrupting Anti-Blackness and Homophobia in Schools
This resource presents a call to action for school community stakeholders to collaborate with educators to increase policies and practices that center the lived experiences of students who hold the intersectional identities of being both Black and a member of the LGBTQ community. The resource explains how anti-blackness and homophobia show up in schools and offers steps for creating supportive and affirming environments for students who identify as Black and queer.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 10 minutes
Recognizing Black LGBTQ Students in Schools
This resource describes issues that Black LGBTQ students experience being marked as Black and queer in a white supremacist and hetero-cisnormative society. The resource examines queerness and the effects of societal oppression on these youth and offers recommendations for school staff and stakeholders to disrupt homophobia and transphobia in schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 13 minutes
Transgender Awareness in Sports: A Choose Your Own Equitable Adventure
This resource explores the different ways in which athletic coaches may respond to negative pushback about transgender students' participation in school sports, and the intents and impacts different responses may elicit. Multiple resources are embedded to assist in navigating these types of conversations and toward cultivating critical consciousness and inclusivity in school sports.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
EquiLearn Virtual Roundtable: Understanding and Resisting Antisemitism in School Board Meetings
This webinar describes the rise in antisemitic incidents at public-school meetings and offers strategies for recognizing antisemitism, connecting these incidents with broader socio-historical contexts, and addressing them when they occur.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 2 minutes
Centering Equity Within the PBIS Framework: Overview and Evidence of Effectiveness
This resource introduces the Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports' 5-Point Equity Approach and shares positive impacts of applying this approach, including its success in improving equity in school discipline.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 17 minutes
Creating a Classroom Teaching Matrix
This resource explains the impact of creating a positive classroom environment that reflects the values of teachers, students, and families. This guide offers instructions for developing a teaching matrix to teach predictable routines; positive expectations; and critical social, emotional, and behavioral skills.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 10 minutes
Inclusive Education in Private Schools: 5 Keys to Success
This webinar presents five keys to inclusive education that benefit all students. Private school educators share insight and resources that can support educators in promoting student success through friendship, community, and positive school climate.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Prepping for PROGRESS 2022 Event Archive and Materials
This Web page shares event recordings and supplemental resources from the PROGRESS Center event, "Prepping for PROGRESS! Adding New Tools to Your Backpack (Toolbox) for the Start of School." All materials from this multi-day event focus on sharing information, resources, and lessons learned to support the development and implementation of high-quality educational programming for students with disabilities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Stories From the Classroom: Developing an Environment Where All Students Belong
This Web page offers resources that support awareness of the role that school districts play in creating a welcoming environment for all students. The "Stories From the Classroom" video shares an administrator’s perspective and strategies for creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all students; the supplemental quick guide can be used to facilitate discussion in conjunction with the video.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Stories From the Classroom: Viewing Disability Rights as an Equity Issue
This website features several resources that support the understanding of disability rights as an equity issue. The "Stories From the Classroom" video shares an educator’s perspective on the value of being an advocate, innovator, and collaborator on behalf of students with disabilities; the supplemental quick guide can be used to facilitate discussion in conjunction with the video.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Ten Ways Schools Can Foster Belonging Among Students With and Without Disabilities
This webinar offers a framework for reflecting upon and fostering welcoming environments and a sense of belonging for all students. Webinar presenter Dr. Erik Carter, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Special Education at Vanderbilt University, describes challenges that many educators face when meaningfully including students with disabilities in the school community and shares 10 ways that schools can foster belonging among students with and without disabilities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Stories From the Classroom: Finding Belonging
This webpage contains resources that support inclusion and equity for students with disabilities. The "Stories From the Classroom" video shares one student’s lived experience finding belonging in the classroom, and the supplemental discussion guide and quick guide can be used in conjunction with the video to facilitate in-depth discussion.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
PBIS in the News: How to Stop Bullying in Schools
This article describes how schools can prevent bullying, including by helping students develop social and emotional skills, setting clear behavioral expectations, and providing supports to students with behavioral needs.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Interrupting Bullying & Harassment in Schools
This online toolkit helps educators and school leaders prevent bullying and harassment by creating a positive school climate.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Equity Assistance Center-South
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Bullying Prevention
This resource provides educators with tools to teach students to identify and effectively respond to bullying.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Interrupting Microaggressions
This resource explains microaggressions and their components as well as their impacts on marginalized groups. The resource then offers strategies for disrupting microaggressions and provides supplemental resources.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 9 minutes
Addressing Race-Based Hate Speech and Microaggressive Behavior in Schools
This resource defines race-based hate speech and microaggressions, and encourages teachers to foster a safe and supportive learning environment by addressing race-based hate speech, jokes, and subtle prejudice-oriented references intended to insult and harm students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Psychological Association
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Cultivating Positive Student-Teacher Relationships
This brief outlines the importance and key elements of positive student-teacher relationships and offers strategies to help educators strengthen their relational skills with students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 20 minutes
Family Engagement
This online resource toolkit for educators offers best practices for authentically engaging with families and community members.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Equity Assistance Center-South
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Building Connections With Students From Diverse Cultural Backgrounds Through Perspective-Taking
This blog post offers five perspective-taking strategies for educators who are working toward improving relationships with students with diverse cultural backgrounds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Measuring the Use of Culturally Responsive Practices
This infographic provides examples and benefits of culturally responsive practices and shares strategies for planning for continuous improvement and measuring implementation of culturally responsive practice.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
A Commitment to Racial Equity From the Center on PBIS
This Web page provides strategies and resources on using school behavior support systems as tools for dismantling systemic racism and promoting equity.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Teaching Kids About Identity and Bias
This Web page offers resources, tools, guidance, and current research on how to teach school-aged children about identity and bias.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Center for Education Equity
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Talking With Children About Race Resource List
This Web page for educators and families provides resources for teaching children about race, racism, and social justice. Resources include best practices, Federal guidance, children’s books, and current research.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Center for Education Equity
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
How Do We Talk to Kids About Race and Racism?
This webinar shares guidance for parents on how to discuss race, racism, and current events involving race with children.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Center for Education Equity
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 2 minutes
Discussing Race, Racism, and Important Current Events With Students: A Guide With Lesson Plans and Resources
This guide for PreK-12 educators aids facilitation of frequent, high-quality conversations with students about race, racism, and important currents events to support self-reflection and constructive classroom discussions.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 29 minutes
We All Belong — School Resource Hub
This resource hub offers lesson plans, teaching tools, and State-level policy news to support educators, advocates, and school communities in promoting culturally sustaining schools and fighting harmful censorship policies.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Equity Assistance Center-South
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
PBIS Cultural Responsiveness Field Guide: Resources for Trainers and Coaches
This field guide shares an integrated framework for embedding equity efforts into a schoolwide model of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports through alignment with culturally responsive practices.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 11 minutes
Improving Conditions for Learning for Youth Who Are Neglected or Delinquent
This resource describes the importance of four key learning conditions — safety, support, social and emotional learning, and engagement and challenge — for students in public school systems and secure-care educational settings, such as residential treatment schools and juvenile detention and corrections facilities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth
Estimated Engagement Time: 59 minutes
Positive Learning Environment Implementation Checklist
This checklist outlines the process for systematically tracking the implementation of key strategies for creating positive learning environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: You for Youth
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Strategies for Creating a Positive Learning Environment
This resource for educators and school staff shares seven strategies, each accompanied by detailed actionable steps, for creating positive learning environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: You for Youth
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Equitable Classroom Practices
This webinar for educators and school staff details best practices for creating equitable classroom environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Western Educational Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 44 minutes
Exploring Equity Issues: Facilitating Race Talk in the Classroom: Lessons From Student Experiences
This brief describes the benefits of classroom discussions on race (race talk), shares students’ experiences of these discussions, and provides educators with strategies for facilitating effective race talk that results in meaningful learning opportunities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Center for Education Equity
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
Short-Term Impacts of Student Listening Circles on Student Perceptions of School Climate and of Their Own Competencies
This report presents findings from a study on the effects of facilitated student focus groups (student listening circles) on students’ perceptions of school climate as well as their perceptions of their own ability to succeed academically and influence changes at their school.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 20 minutes
Speak Out, Listen Up! Tools for Using Student Perspectives and Local Data for School Improvement
This online toolkit contains three tools to help administrators and educators listen to and learn from students about their school experiences and utilize students’ perspectives to inform school improvement efforts.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 5 minutes