The National School Safety Center, state governors, and state school superintendents sponsor America's Safe Schools Week annually in October.
School safety includes keeping campuses free of crime and violence, improving discipline, and increasing student attendance. Schools that are safe and free of violence, weapons, and drugs are necessary to ensure the well-being of all children and the quality of their education.
The most important strategy is to place school safety on the educational agenda. This includes developing a safe schools plan - an ongoing process that encompasses the development of district-wide crime prevention policies, in-service training, crisis preparation, interagency cooperation, and student/parent participation. These ideas are primary strategies to help inform, persuade, and integrate school safety and public opinion. These ideas will facilitate planning and the implementation of the remaining strategies.
This is a wonderful collection of 1,000+ free resources to help you teach kindness to your students. Choose from free printable coloring pages, kindness crafts, games, SEL worksheets, kindness math activities, and more.
The School of Kindness offers Lesson Plans and Activities that teach children about the importance of kindness, the science of kindness, and the impact it has on our physical and mental health. They are designed by teachers, for teachers, and support many of the aims and objectives of the new statutory PSHE curriculum for relationships and health education in primary schools.
El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a day of celebration, particularly for the people in Mexico and Central America, and for many Mexican Americans in the United States. It is a day to honor and commemorate the lives of the dearly departed and to welcome the return of their spirits.
Learn all about this cultural holiday with free resources from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino, including a Day of the Dead learning kit, virtual exhibitions, music, stories, videos, and more.
Operation Prevention's classroom resources provide educators with engaging tools that are aligned to national health and science standards and integrate seamlessly into classroom instruction. Through a series of hands-on investigations, these resources introduce students to the science behind opioids and their impact on the brain and body.
Resources are available for elementary, middle, and high school grade levels.
Explore the history, arts, and culture of Filipino Americans in the United States. From veterans to Tony award winners, from labor movement leaders to gold medalists, we invite you to discover the rich and diverse stories, people, and history of Filipino American culture.
This 30-Day Summer Challenge flyer includes creative ideas designed to keep students engaged in their learning. With 30 days’ worth of fun activities, facts, and resources, learners are bound to learn something new each day and make the most out of summer break.
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Welcoming Schools has released the 2023 Back To School Toolkit full of Elementary and Secondary Resources, booklists, video discussion guides, and much more! Create a welcoming and inclusive classroom for the new school year with Welcoming Schools resources.
The Tennessee Afterschool Network shares 15 wonderful ways you can celebrate Lights On Afterschool in your community.
Teachers and educators can use this free self-care tool kit to prioritize themselves. This self-care toolkit includes a stress relief graphic organizer, "When did I last..." tracker, a visualization graphic organizer, though process bullet journal template, top 10 graphic organizer, and a 30 day self-care challenge.
"Educator Resilience and Trauma-Informed Self-Care" includes a self-care self-assessment with key strategies for fostering resilience and a self-care planning tool to assist educators in identifying areas of strength and growth related to self-care and developing self-care plans.
Safe spaces is a free online training designed to help early care providers, TK-12 educators and other school personnel recognize and respond to trauma and stress in children.
Anyone who works with children is invited to take the free, online professional learning. This includes early care providers, educators and school personnel, including school nurses, librarians, administrative support, school bus drivers and yard duty support. Each module is about two hours and is filled with case examples, videos, strategies and practices. Select the module(s) that best fit your professional needs:
Module 1 - Ages 0-5
Module 2 - Ages 5-11
Module 3 - Ages 12-18
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and U.S. Department of Education (ED) launched an interagency collaboration with the New York Hall of Science to develop and implement STEM-rich making activities for 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) in six states.
Practical tools and resources for planning summer learning programs
A high-quality summer program is shaped by the local community and the students and families it serves. There is not a singular pathway or simple formula to follow when creating a summer program; instead, there are many evidence-based elements that should be considered within a local context and infused into programming to ensure quality and student success.
The Summer Learning Toolkit is a companion document to the Summer Learning Best Practice Guide. The aim of this resource is to bring forward the Key Elements of Quality Summer Programming from the Best Practice Guide in the form of easy, accessible and practical tools to support the planning of robust summer programs.
The National Summer Learning Association has produced a program toolkit to help summer programs celebrate National Summer Learning Week.
NSLA has gathered these resources to assist programs in shaping and strengthening their summer programs. Resources include archived webinars, tip sheets for providers and parents and caregivers, and toolkits.
MENTOR’s Becoming a Better Mentor: Strategies to Be There for Young People is a free resource written by experts in the field to benefit any adult looking to support young people. Full of real-world advice and evidence-based strategies, it provides mentors with tangible strategies to “be there” for young people in their various life journeys and teaches them about the core skills, key principles, and critical practices of mentoring, such as:
mindsets and attitudes that lay the foundation for a strong mentoring relationship;
basic information about youth development and typical mentoring relationship cycles; and
critical skills and competencies to grow and refine to meet the needs of youth.
June 19, or Juneteenth, is a holiday that commemorates the day that Texas, the last Confederate state, learned about the Emancipation Proclamation — marking the end of slavery in the United States in 1865.
But as University of Pittsburgh historian Alaina Roberts notes, it’s important to remember that the emancipation of slaves didn’t actually happen in one fell swoop. Here's information about talking to children about Juneteenth and why it is important to do so.
Juneteenth is a time for celebration and reflection with the whole family. For young children, the abstract concept of freedom and the hard history of slavery can be challenging to grasp. NMAAHC’s early childhood education team offers the following resources to support young children’s understanding and celebration of Juneteenth: a guide on how to talk about slavery and freedom in age appropriate ways, an activity to inspire hope and activism, and a children’s book and online resources list.
PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.
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