AUG 9, 2021
Over the past 20 years, the Sikh Coalition has worked tirelessly to promote Sikh awareness and prevent bullying with the goal of building resilience and pride among Sikh American youth. As students across the country get ready to head back to school, know that the Sikh Coalition is here to support you and ensure that we are all creating safe and inclusive classrooms.
From August 8-11, Dasvandh Network (DVN) will be matching every donation that comes in (up to $20,000) in support of our education work. This means that you can double your impact!
Your donation will allow us to increase capacity in support of this work including:
State standards: The Sikh Coalition has worked tirelessly with sangat members and school officials to create precedent for the inclusion of Sikhi in 14 states. However, we are now facing a growing resistance against increasing diversity and inclusion in public school classrooms. It will now take more effort and mobilization to have successful change. In order for us to continue filling in the map, we need to grow the budget and allocate resources to the policy elements by tracking various legislative proposals and building relationships with like-minded local allies and organizations.
Develop content: We have created quality resources to make it easier for educators to accurately teach Sikhi. With additional investment, we can create more lesson plans for teachers, create videos, and partner with more authors on not only lesson plans but the book development stage.
Implementing at the classroom level: To ensure that state level policy changes trickle down to the classroom, we need to build relationships with educators. That includes conducting teacher trainings/workshops; attending and presenting at social studies conferences, and mapping school districts to better identify contacts for engagement. Additional resources would allow us to map more school districts, lead more trainings, and attend more conferences.
