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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.
This year NNCW will be January 18-22th, 2021, and the week coincides with the inauguration of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. Navigating the twin pandemics of COVID-19, with its increased isolation and uncertainty, along with the national outcries against anti-Blackness and police brutality since June, we look to this moment in history as a signal for change and hope. As an educator, you can organize a NNCW program at your school to ensure that LGBTQ+ students across the country are #SafeToBe themselves in school and in our country.
How to Participate
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Organize
Are you participating as an individual, in a group or GSA, or as a school? GLSEN has a list of No Name-Calling Week activities to help you organize. Use our student organizing, elementary and MS/HS educator guides to make sure everyone in your school is helping LGBTQ+ student feel #SafeToBe.
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Watch and Learn
GLSEN has partnered with Frameline to offer free streaming of their Youth in Motion film: Mr. Navajo, about Zachariah George, a young Two Spirit Navajo, who is actively engaged in indigenizing and decolonizing his community and advocating for LGBTQ+ rights within it. We’ll share links to the film along with the guide to educators and students who take our pledge.
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Make It Official
Pass a proclamation in your area, and organize signing of this pledge! Show you're against name-calling by sharing the names you want to be called with this sign!
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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!
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No Name-Calling Week Partners
These organizations provide invaluable support for No Name-Calling Week! If your local, state, or national organization is interested in participating, sign up to endorse GLSEN's programs.
Anti-Bullying Resources:
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ETR’s Creating and Maintaining Safe Spaces for Virtual Education
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
● Advocates for Youth
● American Psychological Association
● American School Counselor Association (ASCA)
● Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS)
● Bayard Rustin Liberation Initiative
● Center for American Progress
● Center for Disability Rights
● CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers
● Clearinghouse on Women's Issues
● COLAGE
● Communities in Schools
● Council of Administrators of Special Education
● EDGE Consulting Partners
● Educators of Excellence
● Equality Federation
● Equality California
● Family Equality
● Feminist Majority Foundation
● Gender Spectrum
● GLAD (GLBTQ Advocates and Defenders)
● LGBTQ Victory Fund & LGBTQ Victory Institute
● Michigan Teacher of the Year Network
● National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)
● National Association of School Nurses (NASN)
● National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
● The National Black Justice Coalition
● National Center for Transgender Equality
● National Equality Action Team (NEAT)
● National PTA
● New Leaders
● Next100
● Oasis Legal Services
● PRISM DMV
● Sandy Hook Promise
● Silver State Equality
● Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
● Teach for America
● The Trevor Project
● GLAD (GLBTQ Advocates and Defenders)
● LGBTQ Victory Fund & LGBTQ Victory Institute
● Michigan Teacher of the Year Network
● National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)
● National Association of School Nurses (NASN)
● National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
● The National Black Justice Coalition
● National Center for Transgender Equality
● National Equality Action Team (NEAT)
● National PTA
● New Leaders
● Next100
● Oasis Legal Services
● PRISM DMV
● Sandy Hook Promise
● Silver State Equality
● Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
● Teach for America
● The Trevor Project