Building an Inclusive Day School

Attacks on trans athletes harm all of us. Learn what your community can do to avoid this harm.

Make a difference in your early childhood classroom!

This primer includes an introduction to pronouns; guidance on how to use, share, and remember them; and tips for how to create space for other people to share them too.

Sample language for different inclusion and non-discrimination policies, which you can adapt, adopt, and share with your own organization.

Displaying these LGBTQ+ Jewish Safe Zone and Pride stickers is an easy way to indicate your organization or classroom is a safe space for LGBTQ+ people.

Keshet's Seven Jewish Values for an Inclusive Community printable poster.

Print this sign to make it clear that your congregation, institution, or home is a place where trans Jews belong.

At Keshet, many school leaders reach out to us asking for guidance related to dress codes. This resource contains sample language we use that honors the dignity of all school community members.

When we train and educate Jewish institutions, we offer a framework, not a checklist — one that helps communities foster meaningful, lasting change.

Explore these core considerations and sample language as you craft their own statements of affirmation.

No one should be excluded from sports. Hear from a trans Jewish athlete.

This resource offers tools for educators to create classrooms and curriculum that support the LGBTQ+ community and help all students feel that they belong.

By creating forms and data collection tools that are inclusive, you can go a long way towards building a community of belonging.

A comprehensive guide to creating more LGBTQ inclusive Jewish institutions.

A tool to help identify what your community is or isn't doing as it relates to LGBTQ inclusion.

Make sure your classroom is a place of safety and dignity for all students this fall.

This guide outlines the role educators play in building an environment where students can learn best and feel safe to be their whole selves, on their own terms.

This resource shares seven ways to uplift LGBTQ+ joy in the classroom and why it's important for everyone.

An educator shares her journey in noticing bias, learning, and realigning with core values, to make her school a place of true belonging.

A resource for people working with teens that provides advice on supporting LGBTQ youth during the COVID-19 pandemic by creating LGBTQ-affirming online spaces.

This list was complied from responses gathered from participants of Keshet’s National Training Institutes.

Since 2001, Keshet has been working for the full equality and inclusion of LGBTQ Jews in Jewish life. Here are the stories of some of the people that make this work possible.

An overview of best practices to make your Day School more LGBTQ+ inclusive.

This lesson, which can be adapted for 5th-12th graders, helps students explore discrimination and how Jewish values can help us to pursue social justice

A lesson plan to use with young children to explore different family structures.

The goals of this lesson are to give participants an opportunity to explore what makes their family unique, and to expose participants to the wide variety of family structures that exist.

This lesson plans helps participants understand societal privileges they may or may not hold due to their identities.