Diversity

In an effective feedback culture, students feel safe making mistakes and are provided with opportunities to demonstrate what they know and can do.

Poverty-related factors that intervene in students' ability to learn include health and well-being, limited literacy and language development, access to material resources, and level of mobility.

Recent research finds the majority of teachers want to help LGBTQ students but don’t always know how.

Ideas include knowing every child, celebrating their potential, recognizing their challenges, acknowledging inequity, and using culture as a resource.

Teachers can positively impact five factors that contribute to students’ sense of belonging: support networks, language, participation opportunities, safety, and recognition.

To improve history lessons on the period, educators emphasize the roles of grassroots activists, churches, schools, and women.

Schools can address poverty through teaching social justice, offering equal academic opportunities, and discreetly providing school supplies, snacks, clothes, and other basic necessities.

With daily news reports about the devastating impact on students who have been relentlessly bullied, teachers find themselves on the front line in addressing bullying and intolerance. It is time to move into action. Not In Our School offers solutions-based strategies and tools for change to a network of schools that are working to create safe, inclusive and accepting climates.

Discover websites, organizations, articles, planning guides, lesson plans, and other resources dedicated to preventing bullying and harassment.