Welcome to Making Caring Common’s Resources for Educators, Teachers, Counselors, School Administrators, and School Leaders!
We offer strategies, resources lists, audits, surveys, discussion guides, and more, which we hope you will use in your school. You can review the list of resources below or click to sort by the following topics: Bias, Bullying, Caring and Empathy, Gender, Leadership, Moral and Ethical Development, Romantic Relationships, School Culture and Climate, Sexual Harassment and Misogyny, Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), and Talking Across the Aisle.
The KIND Schools Challenge team at Allendale Columbia School ("AC") in Pittsford, New York has spent the past several months encouraging everyone in their community to paint a brick with something meaningful to them. Together, the bricks now form a wall of kindness and inclusion. Here’s what the students have to say about their project.
Read MoreThe KIND Schools Challenge team at the Sacramento Waldorf School in Fair Oaks, California has spent several months developing student-led workshops to promote upstanding in their community. They have not only opened lines of communication between students but have also provided students with a toolbox of ways to help their peers feel safe and welcomed at school. Here’s what the team has to say about the project thus far.
Read MoreThe KIND Schools Challenge team at George Washington Middle School in Dubuque, Iowa has been working hard to spread kindness in their community by handing out kindness cards to spark a cycle of kindness in their community. Read on for the students’ thoughts on their work so far.
Read MoreHow do you go from a leadership class marked by division and distrust to a movement to bring people together around shared experiences?
2017 KIND Schools Challenge winners #YourStoryIsMine shared their story at Harvard Graduate School of Education's Alumni of Color Conference—and we took the opportunity to sit down with students Alan McCullough, Felton Morrel, and Christopher Wright, their teacher Amy Donofrio, and their mentor Jay Harris to learn more about how their project has evolved over the past year and what their hopes are for the future.
Read MoreIn a nationwide survey of 10,000 youth, we found that 80% of youth said achievement or happiness was their top priority while only 20% of youth said caring for others was their top priority. We asked Making Caring Common’s Richard Weissbourd about the importance of kindness in schools, what is special (and challenging!) about the middle and high school years, and his advice for students entering the KIND Schools Challenge.
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