Empathy: Turning the Forgotten Into the Benchmark
So, here’s the secret to turning the forgotten into the benchmark: empathy. Honestly, that is what my team of eight educators work on day in and day out.
Emotional Intelligence
5 Ways to Teach Empathy for Children of All Ages
When we think of success, skills like collaboration, time management and critical thinking may immediately come to mind. While these skills are important, many 21st century ...
Change Your Classroom With Gratitude
Sandra lives in a rooming house and arrived from Honduras last year. She is grateful for clean drinking water. Jasper has chronic arguments with his older brother, yet he is ...
Empathy: The Language of Emotion
Every day, a Grade 2 student (let’s call her Rose) repeatedly asks the other girls in her class to play with her. One of those classmates (who we’ll call Meg) gets fed up and ...
Teaching Tolerance
Matthew Bojer and Tim Zaal are two featured speakers from the Museum of Tolerance who regularly share their stories to spread the word of peace and tolerance worldwide.
Helping Students Learn Through Grief
Teachers are often first responders to tragedy. They work with students who are experiencing individual loss. Students may ask teachers about large-scale crises, like natural ...
Real-World Tips for Anti-Bullying
Today it appears that bullying incidents are under the microscope as much as they have ever been. Some would say this is an undesired outcome of an expanded role by the media ...
Stop Punching Judy — Anti-bullying program for kids
The Second City’s new anti-bulling program, called Stop Punching Judy (a twist on the classic Punch & Judy puppet shows dating back to the 18th century) emphasizes personal ...
Creating Empathy in the Classroom
There’s three parts to empathy: the head, the heart and the hand,” Gordon says. The hand is the intellectual part of understanding what empathy is and what it does, the heart ...