In partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the Los Angeles Rams hosted a school-wide pep rally for Third Street Elementary School students to kick off Making Caring Common’s Caring Schools Network program.
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Looking for ways to help anxious students? Making Caring Common Faculty Director Rick Weissbourd suggests:
1. Connect every student to an adult at school
2. Discover what each student is anxious about
3. Focus on building community
Hear more in this short video by Usable Knowledge:
Talking to your children about going back to school and hearing their worries is crucial, especially this year.
"What parents are worried about may not be what kids are in fact worried about. It’s important for parents to inquire, find out, and listen to what kids are concerned about,” said Rick Weissbourd in this Harvard Gazette article.
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Making Caring Common’s Caring Schools Network (CSN) supports K-12 schools in cultivating strong, caring school communities that nurture students’ social, emotional, and academic commitments and skills they need to care for people who are different from them and build caring, just communities.
Join us to learn more about the following:
How we support schools
How schools improve their culture and climate
Ways to become involved
We look forward to seeing you and answering your questions!
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Justin-Siena High School has joined the Caring Schools Network (CSN), Lorna Sheridan writes in The Sonoma Index Tribune. In collaboration with Making Caring Common, the school will collect anonymous survey data to better understand how students, staff and parents experience the school community.
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California’s Coronado Eagle & Journal writes about how kids can include others, drawing on our research with the Cartoon Network on bullying.
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Ottiya magazine shared our “5 Tips for Cultivating Empathy” with its readers.
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In this post in the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the deep infection of sexual harassment and misogyny in workplaces and communities across this country has erupted into a national conversation—one appallingly overdue. But we can't stop sexual harassment and misogyny in adulthood without addressing its deep roots in gender roles and expectations in childhood.
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Watch three Medford High School students who won the KIND Schools Challenge speak about their project and next steps on this interview on Boston 25 News.
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Richard Weissbourd and Jennifer Kahn found that in schools where students reported having more empathy, students also reported fewer experiences of bullying and were more likely to try to stop bullying. Read more in this article in Nation Swell about how Roots of Empathy teaches children empathy — specifically by exposing them to babies.
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Making Caring Common’s research was featured in this article by Rewire.News, which included our finding that a majority of 18-to-25-year-olds had never discussed with parents how to make sure their partner wants to have sex, how to determine their own comfort levels, the importance of not pressuring or persisting when someone says no, how to know how drunk is “too drunk,” or how to be a caring and respectful sexual partner. Now some coaches are bringing the conversation straight to the locker room.
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This article by Joe Brooks, the founder of Community Works Institute, highlights The ELL Give Back project, which won the KIND Schools Challenge, a partnership between the KIND Foundation and the Making Caring Common project.
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After launching the nationwide KIND Schools Challenge last fall, the KIND Foundation and Making Caring Common were tasked with choosing one winner out of nearly 200 submitted student projects. The winning project was created by three Medford High School juniors – Jenna Agnone, Luiza Barbosa and Rubia Fernandes. The students learned they had won the challenge at an assembly for the entire junior class. Read more in Wicked Local Medford.
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Three Medford High School juniors were surprised to learn they won the national KIND School Challenge at an assembly in front of their classmates Tuesday. Rubia Fernandes, Luiza Barbosa and Jenna Agnone, members of the Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility, were named national winners for their submission, ELL Give Back Program.
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“Our vision is to make students who are learning English feel more comfortable at our school and make sure they have the resources for this to happen.”
We’re thrilled to announce the 2017-2018 KIND Schools Challenge winners: Medford High School’s ELL Give Back team!
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Harvard’s Making Caring Common Launches National School Campaign to Help Young People Bridge Divides, Build Stronger Communities
Caring Schools #CommonGood campaign mobilizes schools nationwide to take action to mend country’s fractures and strengthen democracy
Cambridge, MA - Harvard’s Making Caring Common project today launched a national campaign to mobilize high schools and middle schools to prepare young people to be constructive community members and citizens who create a better world. The Caring Schools #CommonGood campaign aims to motivate schools to take action to help mend our country’s fractures and strengthen democracy.
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