How can we best support our children in sports? The TOC podcast dives deep into this question with MCC’s Rick Weissbourd (hint: the answer isn’t yelling at referees).
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How—and why—should we raise children who care about the common good? the Purposeful Empathy podcast’s Anita Nowak discusses this core MCC topic with Rick Weissbourd.
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Timely reads from the MCC team for the week of January 30, 2023.
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NBC Los Angeles report on how LAUSD’s 3rd Street Elementary school is using our Caring Schools Network program to help kids care, connect, and feel a greater sense of belonging at school.
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Los Angeles’ KTLA reports from LAUSD’s Third Street Elementary School, which is piloting MCC’s Caring Schools Network program.
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Want your kids to value their community service? Ask them questions that get them reflecting about what they learned. Check out these suggestions from MCC's faculty director, Rick Weissbourd in HGSE’s Usable Knowledge.
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In this piece for Forbes, Brennan Barnard urges families to dig deeper than acceptance rates in their college search process.
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Why does it feel so hard to care right now? TIME’s Lily Rothman speaks with MCC’s Rick Weissbourd about “the harder forms of caring” and how race and class have informed people’s experiences of loneliness over the last two years.
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How did the pandemic impact students’ admissions and college choice process and experiences? Melissa Ezarik spoke with MCC’s Rick Weissbourd for this piece in Inside Higher Ed.
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Unbound interviewed MCC’s Milena Batanova about the valuable “soft skill” of empathy in the workplace.
Says Batanova: To “truly empathize, to listen and be present and to think about improving others’ lives…that can go a long way in any profession, and there’s nothing simple or soft about it.”
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In this piece for Best Colleges, Mark Drozdowski highlights MCC research and writes that demonstrating good character can give students an edge in college admissions—but it remains unclear just how significant that edge might be.
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In the latest from Inside Higher Ed, Richard Weissbourd is quoted in an article about why current admissions and enrollment decision making and desires involve common-sense thinking on location, price and flexibility.
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One needs simply to turn on the news to realize that we are a world divided, writes MCC’s Brennan Barnard in Forbes. But what if, instead of a battlefield, the world was a schoolhouse?
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“Parents need to ask themselves how much of their own hopes and needs are getting confused with what is best for their child—their own status concerns, their competitive feelings with other parents, their belief that the college their child attends is a clear and public reflection of their success as parents, their hopes that their child will live out their particular dreams or compensate for their shortcomings.”
Read more sound, sane advice for families as college admissions decisions start rolling in in this Forbes piece by Brennan Barnard.
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Gratitude is about more than saying “thank you.” If we want to help kids truly develop gratitude, adults need to go a step further — they need to teach kids to notice (who or what we’re grateful for) and think (about why we’re grateful), on a regular basis.
Read more about Making Caring Common’s strategies for developing gratitude in children in this Usable Knowledge piece.
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“Rather than telling our kids the most important thing is that they’re happy, we should be telling them the most important thing is that they’re kind.”
Listen to this great interview with MCC Faculty Director Rick Weissbourd in the Shah Family Foundation’s Catalysts for Change podcast.
This article mentions one of our studies which found that 80 percent of youths valued achievement and happiness over concern for others.
“And it is this prioritizing of personal success over kindness that leads to negative behavior. As parents, we say we want well-behaved kids, but this study points to what it calls a rhetoric/reality gap,” Bizia Greene writes in the Santa Fe New Mexican.
She discusses some Making Caring Common strategies to help us all have kindness in common.
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Scott Jaschik writes in Inside Higher Ed about our new statement that we issued with more than 300 admissions deans. The statement focuses on valuing self-care and family care -- and urging students to share their context so that colleges can understand their situations.
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In this piece for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Matt McKinney spoke with Rick Weissbourd about moral character and teaching.
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