No Name-Calling Week

GLSEN’s No Name-Calling Week, (NNCW) is a week organized by K-12 educators and students to end name-calling and bullying in schools. This week shares tools and resources for disrupting anti-LGBTQ+ harassment and bias-based bullying, and invites LGBTQ+ students to assert what they want to be called. 

Statement by Key Jackson, GLSEN Director of Community Mobilization:

“For more than 30 years, GLSEN’s programs have built upon our mission to create safe and inclusive environments for LGBTQ+ youth and educators in K-12 schools. Due to feedback from educators, students, volunteers, and staff through surveys and committees, GLSEN has decided to phase out No Name-Calling Week as an annual program.

“GLSEN has the responsibility to evaluate programs and their effectiveness through feedback and evaluation, which is important to ensure all resources are updated and aligned with our commitment to include racial, gender, and disability justice in our goals and strategic framework. At this time, No Name-Calling Week has served its purpose and will open up opportunities to shift and create new programs that will support us in fulfilling our mission.

“No Name-Calling Week, a week organized by K-12 educators and students to end name-calling and bullying in schools, is a project that seeks to focus national attention on the problem of name-calling in schools, and to provide students and educators with the tools and inspiration to launch an ongoing dialogue about ways to eliminate name-calling in their communities.

“GLSEN is actively working on a new campaign for January 2023, which will focus on identifying and developing concepts rooted in liberation. This new program will have intentional resources and curricula development for elementary, middle, and high school students and educators.”

If you already had plans in place to include No Name-Calling Week into your curriculum for January 2022, we encourage you to continue with your work. GLSEN also invites you to focus on strengthening your Gender and Sexuality Alliance Clubs (GSAs) in the following weeks. GLSEN will be releasing new GSA resources including a webinar throughout January and February 2022.

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Participate & Create

There are lots of ways to participate in No Name-Calling Week this year, even if you're in an online or hybrid school! That's why we're sharing resources and virtual events for each day of No Name-Calling Week. Check out our Week-Of Agenda for ideas, links, and times to join us for virtual events like our Picture Book StoryTime and #SafeToBe Rally!

And don't forget to put kindness into action by sending some Kindness Grams throughout the week - and beyond!

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Plan

Use our lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school and these 10 actions for elementary and MS/HS educators. Create a plan for each day of NNCW using our Annual Planner.

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Teach

GLSEN has a host of lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school students on the topics of name-calling, bullying, and bias in schools, perfect for the week! Check out our No Name-Calling Week Resources!

National Education Organizations 

American Counseling Association
American Federation of Teachers
American School Counselor Association
American School Health Association
ASCD
Association for Middle Level Education
Council of Chief State School Officers
National Art Education Association 
National Association for Gifted Children
National Association for Multicultural Education
National Association for the Education of Young Children
National Association of School Nurses
National Association of School Psychologists
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Association of Social Workers
National Education Association
National Parent Teacher Association
National School Boards Association
School Social Work Association of America