Cultivating kindness in school : activities that promote integrity, respect, and compassion in elementary and middle school students /
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Champaign, IL :
Research Press,
c2004.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Kind schools
- Selecting staff and faculty task force members
- Selecting student task force members
- Selecting community task force members
- Creating a vision
- Choosing program components
- Maintaining a calendar of events
- Establishing action groups
- Action-group planning
- Creating posters and signs
- Organizing a kickoff event
- Organizing five days of kindness
- Organizing quarterly events
- Using kindness buddies connections
- Using kindness coupons
- Establishing kind buddies connections
- Establishing a study buddies program
- Creating a student service team
- Creating a student media team
- Identifying guest speakers
- Creating a group of student speakers
- pt. 2. Kind classrooms
- Kind classrooms : lessons for grades K-3
- Sequence 1. Basic practices for building a community
- What is kindness? Using a kindness log
- Three basic rules
- Learning the kindness pledge
- Doing my best
- Mail pouches
- Sequence 2. Who we are
- Trains
- Power circle
- Card villages
- -- Class quilt
- Class flag
- Sequence 3. Circle of kindness meetings
- Creating an opening ritual
- Checking in with feelings
- Clearing a conflict, asking for forgiveness
- Creating a closing ritual
- Kindness pledge activity
- Sequence 4. Living the kindness pledge
- Seeking the positive
- Putting down put-downs
- Honoring our differences, discovering our similarities
- Healing our hurts
- Listening to one another
- Honoring heroes
- Reaching higher for success
- Living our dreams
- Kind classrooms : lessons for grades 4-8
- Sequence 1. Basic practices for building a community
- What is kindness? Using a kindness log
- Three basic rules
- Learning the kindness pledge
- Building integrity
- A code of ethics
- Sequence 2. Who we are
- My cultures
- A collage of my culture
- Character cards
- Power circle
- Paper beams
- Sequence 3. Circle of kindness meetings
- Creating an opening ritual
- Checking in with feelings
- Clearing a conflict, asking for forgiveness
- Creating a closing ritual
- Kindness pledge activity
- Sequence 4. Living the kindness pledge
- Seeking the positive
- Putting down put-downs
- Honoring our differences, discovering our similarities
- Healing our hurts
- Listening to one another
- Honoring heroes
- Reaching higher for success
- Living our dreams
- Sequence 5. Kindness dilemmas
- Jack's dilemma
- Maria's dilemma
- Alicia's dilemma
- Takisha's dilemma
- Roberto's dilemma
- Creating kindness dilemmas
- Appendix A. The context of character education
- Appendix B. The high school connection
- Appendix C. Kind classrooms lesson posters
- Three basic rules
- Kindness pledge
- Circle of kindness meeting agenda
- Four-point process for clearing a conflict and asking for forgiveness.
