Not In Our School

Interactive Learning Community Webinars

We hope you will invite educators in NIOT communities to join a monthly series of professional development workshops to share strategies for building a culture of inclusion and belonging in their classrooms with the Not In Our School initiative. 

Not In Our School Spring 2023 Webinars will be held on the second THURSDAY of each month beginning next Thursday on February 9, 2023. Upcoming webinars will focus on:

• Feb. 9 - Anti-Bullying: Countering Hate & Bias — Race & Ethnicity
• Mar. 9 - Anti-Bullying: Countering Hate & Bias — DisABILITY
• Apr. 20 - Anti-Bullying: Countering Hate & Bias — LGBTQ+
• May 11 - Countering Antisemitism and Hate 

If you are a teacher, we hope you can join us! If you are not a teacher, we hope you will forward this notice to teachers at local schools.

FROM PITTSBURGH TO CHARLOTTESVILLE

Repairing the World will be presented on Feb. 11 at an historic Black Church in Charlottesville in an event hosted by Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church, the Charlottesville Clergy Collective and Congregation Beth Israel.This group of faith leaders have been active in trying to heal their community in the aftermath of the assault on their city in August 2017.  

NIOT Co-Executive Director Patrice O'Neill will speak with local leaders at the event and there will be roundtable discussions. 

We hope you will join us for this event!

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

NIOT is excited for our Charlottesville screening and several more community screenings of our new film, Repairing the World, coming up in February and March. If you live in Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia or Minnesota, we hope you will join us.

Please forward to friends and family.

• Feb. 5 - Louisville, Kentucky Jewish Film Festival
• Feb. 9 - Charlotte, North Carolina Jewish Film Festival
• Feb. 26 - Minneapolis, Minnesota JCC Community Screening

Share this link and help us spread the word.

IN THE FACE OF RELENTLESS MASS VIOLENCE, HOW CAN WE SUPPORT EACH OTHER?

We stand in solidarity with our Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) partners and communities. May we all join in supporting each other through our collective trauma and dedicate ourselves to preventing violence directed at any community. NIOT's Pardeep Kaleka suggests ways to stand up and support each other.

"Our communities in California and across our country are reeling from the impact of the tragic and senseless violence that took the lives of 11 people with at least 9 injured in Monterey Park, California on January 21. Just two days later, another mass shooting took the lives of seven people in Half Moon Bay, CA."

FILMS WE LIKE

Executive Director Patrice O'Neill recommends this new film in which Academy Award nominee David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck, Lincoln, Nomadland) portrays Jan Karski in this genre-defying true story of a reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness.

Last fall, Strathairn captivated Brooklyn theatergoers with his solo performance in the play on which the film is based with his depiction of the Polish resistance fighter’s harrowing journey through exile during World War II.

Now playing at select theaters across the country.

Image Credits: Not In Our School photo (NIOT), The Charlottesville Clergy Collective, Beloved Community Cville, Congregate Cville, and the African American Pastors Council organized a walking Vigil of Remembrance and an Interfaith Service on August 12, 2022; Repairing the World title image (NIOT); a young man lights a candle at a memorial in Monterey Park, CA (Twitter); Remember This poster (Remember This film)