| The Human Rights Campaign Foundation Releases a "How-To" Guide on Advocating with School Boards The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF)'s Welcoming Schools Program, in conjunction with the School Board Integrity Project, is announcing a "how-to" guide on effectively advocating with local school boards for change. "School Boards Matter: A Guide to Effectively Advocating at the School Board Level", walks advocates through the process of lobbying their school boards for crucial policies that ensure all students can learn in a safe and welcoming environment. Unfinished Business: Understanding the Digital Use Divide in American Schools This second report in the special series from Project Tomorrow examines how digital tools and resources are used within America's classrooms to create active learning experiences which help students develop learner self-efficacy and agency, as well as critical workplace skills. Three New Get Caught Reading Posters Feature Drag Story Hour NYC Artists Every Child a Reader, an initiative of the Children's Book Council, and Drag Story Hour NYC are proud to announce three new Get Caught Reading posters featuring storytelling artists Yuhua Hamasaki, Harmonica Sunbeam, and Oliver ThePlace. Drag Story Hour NYC produces storytelling and creative arts programs for children and teens, presented by local drag artists, in libraries, schools, and other community spaces in all five boroughs of New York City, and virtually. Playing with Hate: How Online Gamers with Diverse Identity Usernames are Treated Previous research by ADL and others has repeatedly suggested that online games are spaces where hate and harassment are rampant. In this report, ADL shares the findings when they set out to examine what happens when gamers express pride in different religious, ethnic, and national identities while playing online competitive multiplayer games. 2025 Children's Book Week Poster by Julie Flett Revealed The Children's Book Council and Every Child a Reader has named Julie Flett, a Cree-Métis artist based in British Columbia, as the illustrator of the 2025 Children's Book Week poster. Having selected Flett as this year's artist is a natural extension of the CBC's ongoing cataloging of new and backlist books by Indigenous authors and illustrators. |