Recently added articles from Respect:
No Name-Calling Week
Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... This January, thousands of schools around the country participated in the fourth annual No Name-Calling Week, a week of educational activities aimed at ending namecalling of all kinds in America's schools. The event, which was inspired by the young adult novel "The Misfits" by James Howe, grew ...
Iowa Passes Historic Safe Schools Law
Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... On March 5, less than a week after Iowa legislators in both houses passed a comprehensive safe schools bill, Governor Chet Culver signed the bill into law. The new law will protect all students from bullying and harassment, specifically enumerating categories that include race, gender, religion, ...
Developing Leadership
Apr 01, 2007; Byard, Eliza ... Among GLSEN's key strategic goals this year are two involving school-level leadership, as we work to support principals and educators in their efforts to improve school climate for all students, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. This issue of RESPECT highlights No ...
GLSEN Partners With Elementary School Principals on No Name-Calling Week Lesson Plans
Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Since its inception as a program for middle schools, No NameCalling Mfee/rhas drawn attention from elementary school teachers and principals who wanted to participate. GLSEN and the No Name-Calling Week coalition have received a flood of requests for resources and lesson plans appropriate for ...
Students Organize Against Oppression on MLK Weekend
Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, tudents around the country memorialized the slain civil rights leader's life with efforts designed to build coalitions to work toward undoing all forms of oppression. One of four Days of Action organized annually by GLSEN, the Martin Luther King, ...
Isaiah Washington Hears Message of Respect
Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... On January 22, GLSEN Founder and Executive Director, Kevin Jennings, met with Grey's Anatomy co-star Isaiah Washington in Los Angeles. They discussed Washington's use of an anti-gay slur and laid the groundwork for an ongoing partnership to combat the prejudice and intolerance faced by the ...
Students Express Themselves for No Name-Calling Week
Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... "My name is Hunter. Don't call me anything else." This admonition is featured prominently in artwork by Hunter McIntosh, a second grader from Holy Redeemer Catholic School in Kissimmee, Florida. Her drawing, titled "No Name-Calling," was one of this year's first place winners in the No ...
GLSEN Richmond Builds a Winning Team
Apr 01, 2007; Langmuir, Martha ... Last Fall, the Family Policy Network (FPN), a self-proclaimed "socially-conservative Christian organization, "named Virginia one of five target states for the introduction of "parental permission bills. " These bills would require that parents grant permission before their children could join ...
GLSEN Announces Honorees for Respect Awards - New York
Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... respect AWARDS GLSEN recently announced that John J. Mack, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley, the National Education Association and Elizabeth Duthinh, a student organizer from Maryland will be honored at this year's Respect Awards gala in New York. The annual event, to be held Monday, ...