Cultivating kindness in school : activities that promote integrity, respect, and compassion in elementary and middle school students /
Stuecker, Ric,
Cultivating kindness in school : activities that promote integrity, respect, and compassion in elementary and middle school students / Ric Stuecker. - xi, 207 pages ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206).
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 -- Kind classrooms -- Kind classrooms : lessons for grades K-3 -- 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 -- Who we are -- Trains -- Power circle -- Card villages ---- Class quilt -- Class flag -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Who we are -- My cultures -- A collage of my culture -- Character cards -- Power circle -- Paper beams -- 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 -- 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 -- Kindness dilemmas -- Jack's dilemma -- Maria's dilemma -- Alicia's dilemma -- Takisha's dilemma -- Roberto's dilemma -- Creating kindness dilemmas -- The context of character education -- The high school connection -- 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. pt. 1. pt. 2. Sequence 1. Sequence 2. Sequence 3. Sequence 4. Sequence 1. Sequence 2. Sequence 3. Sequence 4. Sequence 5. Appendix A. Appendix B. Appendix C.
0878224858 9780878224852
2003110820
Moral education (Elementary)--United States
Character--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States
Moral education (Middle school)--United States
Character--Study and teaching (Middle school)--United States.
Kindness
Activity programs in education--United States
LC311 / .S78 2004
372.0114
Cultivating kindness in school : activities that promote integrity, respect, and compassion in elementary and middle school students / Ric Stuecker. - xi, 207 pages ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206).
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 -- Kind classrooms -- Kind classrooms : lessons for grades K-3 -- 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 -- Who we are -- Trains -- Power circle -- Card villages ---- Class quilt -- Class flag -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Who we are -- My cultures -- A collage of my culture -- Character cards -- Power circle -- Paper beams -- 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 -- 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 -- Kindness dilemmas -- Jack's dilemma -- Maria's dilemma -- Alicia's dilemma -- Takisha's dilemma -- Roberto's dilemma -- Creating kindness dilemmas -- The context of character education -- The high school connection -- 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. pt. 1. pt. 2. Sequence 1. Sequence 2. Sequence 3. Sequence 4. Sequence 1. Sequence 2. Sequence 3. Sequence 4. Sequence 5. Appendix A. Appendix B. Appendix C.
0878224858 9780878224852
2003110820
Moral education (Elementary)--United States
Character--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States
Moral education (Middle school)--United States
Character--Study and teaching (Middle school)--United States.
Kindness
Activity programs in education--United States
LC311 / .S78 2004
372.0114