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Welcoming Schools for LGBTQ Students

HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools is a comprehensive bias-based bullying prevention program that provides LGBTQ+ and gender-inclusive professional development training, lesson plans, booklists and resources specifically designed for educators and youth-serving professionals. In addition to working with individual schools, the Welcoming Schools team works with districts to increase the internal capacity for districts to improve school climate by training facilitators within the district to deliver Welcoming Schools content to district educators.

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What Anxiety Feels Like

A short video from the point of view of Jacob, a pre-teen who worries a lot and avoids things that might trigger his worry, like watching the news about crime in his neighborhood. It can be used to help youth understand their own anxiety and how anxiety affects them. This video is Part 1 of Jacob’s story. Part 1 can be found here: https://youtu.be/DnuRZH0fMdk

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What does the Research Say? Hundreds of Independent Studies Confirm: SEL Benefits Students

The benefits of social and emotional learning (SEL) are well-researched, with evidence demonstrating that an education that promotes SEL yields positive outcomes for students, adults, and school communities. The findings in this paper come from hundreds of independent studies across multiple fields and sources that show SEL leads to beneficial outcomes related to: social and emotional skills, academic performance, mental wellness, healthy behaviors, school climate and safety, and lifetime outcomes.

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What is Racial Equity?

This article explains racial equity as both an outcome and a process. As an outcome, we achieve racial equity when race no longer determines one’s socioeconomic outcomes; when everyone has what they need to thrive, no matter where they live. In this article, Race Forward also describes their four interlocking strategies to advance racial equity.

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Trauma-Informed Skills for Educators

Trauma-Informed Skills for Educators (TISE), is a self-paced, user-friendly e-learning course designed to help K-12 educators recognize trauma and support students who may be affected by trauma. TISE contains eight modules. Modules 1–4 educate users about trauma and resilience. Modules 5–8 focus on building the skills needed to create a positive school climate, communicate in a trauma-informed way, de-escalate situations in the classroom, and collaborate with staff members to build a trauma-responsive school environment. There is a cost for this training.

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Trauma-Sensitive Schools Training Package

The Trauma-Sensitive Schools Training Package offers school and district administrators and staff a framework and roadmap for adopting a trauma-sensitive approach school- or district wide. The Training Package includes a variety of resources for educating school staff about trauma and trauma-sensitive practices and for providing school leaders with a step-by-step process for implementing a universal, trauma-informed approach using package materials.

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