{"id":5913,"date":"2016-01-18T12:21:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2016-01-18T12:21:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:21:29","slug":"jan-18-22-is-no-name-calling-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/jan-18-22-is-no-name-calling-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 18-22 is No Name-Calling Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glsen.org\/article\/thousands-educators-and-students-celebrate-kindness-part-glsens-no-name-calling-week\"><b>Thousands of Educators and Students to \u201cCelebrate Kindness\u201d as Part of\u00a0<\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>GLSEN\u2019s No Name-Calling Week<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">Launched in 2004, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glsen.org\/nncw\"><span class=\"s4\">GLSEN\u2019s No Name-Calling Week<\/span><\/a> invites educators and students across the country to engage in dialogue about eliminating name-calling and bullying in their communities. Inspired by <i>The Misfits, <\/i>a young-adult novel about four friends who campaign for student government on a \u201cno name-calling\u201d platform, the program is part of GLSEN\u2019s efforts to create safe and affirming schools for all K-12 students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">GLSEN, alongside over 60 partner organizations, provides materials and tools for educators to incorporate the theme of \u201cCelebrate Kindness\u201d into their classrooms. Over 13,000 educators have signed on since the program\u2019s founding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">In addition to providing planning guides, lesson plans, and ideas for activities for educators, GLSEN organizes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glsen.org\/nonamecallingweek\/creative-expression\"><span class=\"s4\">Creative Expression Exhibit<\/span><\/a> where individuals, schools, and groups can share their efforts and inspire others through poems, stories, essays, drawings, collages, sculptures, songs, videos and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">For more information about GLSEN\u2019s No Name-Calling Week, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glsen.org\/nncw\"><span class=\"s4\">http:\/\/www.glsen.org\/nncw<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s5\">Matt Spearing<\/span><span class=\"s3\"><br \/>\nDirector of Student Activities<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s3\">Director of Inclusion<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s3\">10<\/span><span class=\"s6\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s3\"> Grade Dean<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s3\">Science, Coach, Dorm Head<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Educators and Students to \u201cCelebrate Kindness\u201d as Part of\u00a0GLSEN\u2019s No Name-Calling Week Launched in 2004, GLSEN\u2019s No Name-Calling Week invites educators and students across the country to engage in dialogue about eliminating name-calling and bullying in their communities. Inspired by The Misfits, a young-adult novel about four friends who campaign for student government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/jan-18-22-is-no-name-calling-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jan. 18-22 is No Name-Calling Week<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5914,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions\/5914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}