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Happy New Year!

Contents:

1.) Safe Schools Coalition: LGBTQ- Inclusive Planning Guide for January

2.) Register for GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week

3.) Best Practices: Creating an LGBT- inclusive School Climate

4.) 10 Simple Ways to Celebrate GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week

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1.) Safe Schools Coalition: LGBTQ- Inclusive Planning Guide for January Happy New Year! Follow this link to resources and lesson plans that you will find useful for this month.

2.) Register for GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week: January 20-24, 2014
No Name-Calling Week is an annual week of educational activities aimed at ending name-calling of all kinds and providing schools with the tools and inspiration to launch an on-going dialogue about ways to eliminate bullying in their communities. If you are interested in registering your school for the event, please follow this link to learn more.

3.)
Best Practices: Creating an LGBT-inclusive School Climate

Teaching Tolerance has created a resource for schools who are seeking to create an LGBT-inclusive environment for their community members. This list of best practices was compiled to give school leaders the knowledge they need to create a climate in which their most vulnerable students feel safe and valued. Through inclusive policies and nurturing practices, administrators, counselors and teachers have the power to build an educational environment that is truly welcoming to all students. Please follow this link to access the resource.

4.) 10 Simple ways to Celebrate GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week in Your School There are many easy, time-saving ways to share the No Name-Calling Week message with your students. Here's a sampler of no-fuss activities, which require little planning and classroom time. Please follow this link to learn more about those resources.

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