Recently added articles from Respect:
No Name-Calling Week
Apr 01, 2007; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... "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; ... 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; ... 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, ...
Midterm Elections Provide Promise
Jan 01, 2007; ... Election night victories improve prospects for safe schools legislation The 2006 midterm elections delivered substantial victories for candidates supportive of comprehensive safe schools legislation, both in Congress and in state houses across the country. The new leadership promises to ...
GLSEN Students Take Capitol Hill by Storm
Jan 01, 2007; ... On December 4, students from Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan and New York spent the day on Capitol Hill. They met with congressional staff and administration officials to educate them about the importance of comprehensive anti-hullying legislation and asked them to support such measures in the ...
message from the Deputy Executive Director
Jan 01, 2007; ... On November 28,1998, Rita Hester, a transgender woman, was stabbed multiple times and left for dead in her Boston apartment. In all likelihood, she was murdered because she was born biologically a man but identified and lived as a woman. The murder - like many involving transgender victims - ...
GLSEN Pittsburgh Demands Respect
Jan 01, 2007; ... Chapter calls on official who used slur to apologize or resign When BLSEH Pittsburgh Co-Chair Tom Wyse first heard that the Ambridge (PA) Area School Board's vice president referred to members of that high school's Bay-Straight Alliance as "faggots" during a school hoard meeting, he ...
Schools and Students Express Themselves
Jan 01, 2007; ... A television commercial. A clay sculpture. Several recordings of original songs. Those were just a lew of the thousands of entries submitted tiy students from across the country who entered the No Name-Calling Week Creative Expression Contest. The contest encourages students to convey their ...
A Tale of Two Organizers
Jan 01, 2007; ... Two members of GLSEN's Jump-Start Team tell their stories GLSEN's Jump-Start National Student Leadership Team is comprised of 50 student leaders from across the country. During their time as team members, GLSEN provides these students with extensive training and support to become leaders ...
Watch Out Westchester! It's Mary Jane Karger Day!
Jan 01, 2007; ... GLSEN chapter leader honored with award, proclamation The Westchester County Board of Legislators recently issued a proclamation honoring the work of BLSEH Board Member, Hudson Valley chapter leader and National Advisory Council co-chair Mary Jane Karger. The board cited her efforts to ...
development update
Jan 01, 2007; ... National Sponsors Lead the Way GLSEN owes a debt of gratitude to our National Sponsors, a group of corporate supporters who have made a major commitment to ensuring the success of our work. Their investment in GLSEN is a major source of funding for our programs and ...
GLSEN's Second Annual ALLY WEEK
Nov 01, 2006; ... October 15-21, 2006 This October, students in schools across the country participated in GLSEN's second annual Ally Week, a weeklong celebration of the important role allies play in creating safe schools for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression ....
message from the Executive Director
Nov 01, 2006; ... During the past couple of months, I've had the opportunity to travel around the country to support the release of my new book, Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son. I've thoroughly enjoyed being able to talk to people about the struggles I faced growing up gay in America, the struggles they have faced, ...
New, Improved Educators Network Launches
Nov 01, 2006; ... For educators, the start of a new school year means the return of students, lesson plans and parent-teacher conferences. For GLSEH's Education Department, the start of this school year brings the relaunch of a new, improved edition of our Educators Network. GLSEN's Educators Network was ...