Cultivating kindness in school : activities that promote integrity, respect, and compassion in elementary and middle school students / Ric Stuecker.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206).

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.

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