Join Making Caring Common’s new Character Review in Admissions workshop series to discover how character review can help you build a stronger, more diverse student body that contributes to a thriving campus.
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Making Caring Common’s new Relationship Mapping Initiative promotes positive youth mental health by ensuring that all students are connected to others in their school community. Schools in the initiative will use and provide feedback on new, research-based resources designed to increase student connection and belonging in school. Learn more and join today!
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Learn how schools can more effectively promote students’ commitment to justice and caring for others, including for those different from them in culture, race, political orientation, and other characteristics.
Offered in collaboration with HGSE's Professional Education Programs, Making Caring Common’s Justice, Care, and Equity Leadership Institute is an opportunity for a diverse and talented group of district and school leaders from across the country to engage with each other and with national experts on how schools can more effectively promote students’ caring and their commitment to justice during this politically and morally troubled time.
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As 74 million children face this next phase of their “new normal,” they risk increased social isolation, disconnection, and problem behaviors online. This free program for K-12 schools from Harvard’s Making Caring Common project is designed to help schools respond to these needs during the global pandemic.
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Making Caring Common’s voter mobilization series helps young people aged 18-25 effectively mobilize their peers to vote and provides them with civic knowledge and organizing skills that will be useful throughout their lives.
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The Caring Schools Network (CSN), developed by experts at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and educators nationwide, empowers K - 12 schools with the tools they need to cultivate a sense of community, caring, and justice in students.
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Parents are inundated with advice about promoting positive behaviors in children. Yet remarkably little is known about basic, crucial questions related to the implementation and impact of parenting strategies. Through our Caring Families project, Making Caring Common has been developing and pilot-testing a variety of engaging strategies and activities to help parents further cultivate empathy, gratitude, and diligence in their children.
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Making Caring Common and colleges and universities across the country are working together to develop and pilot new character assessment tools and practices in college admission.
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Join college admissions officers in reshaping the college admissions process to value ethical and intellectual engagement.
College admissions plays a powerful role in shaping student attitudes and behaviors. More than 175 college admissions offices, including all the Ivy League colleges, are making changes aligned with our Turning the Tide goals of:
Developing greater concern for others and the common good among high school students;
Increasing equity and access for economically disadvantaged students; and
Reducing excessive achievement pressure.
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Making Caring Common’s Youth Advisory Board is a diverse group of high school students from across the country who are committed to making schools more caring and respectful places through everyday interactions. Members guide our understanding of and help devise solutions to the most pressing moral issues and social challenges of their peer groups, such as bullying and exclusion. They provide feedback on our ideas, share their thoughts on current events, and make sure we’re on the right track when communicating information to young people.
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