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Black History Month is a time to reflect on the struggles and triumphs of Black communities, to celebrate Black culture and heritage, and to educate communities about how Black history and culture has shaped—and continues to shape—our society.
Read MoreMaking Caring Common’s Caring Schools Network (CSN) team shares some of their favorite empathy-building books for young teens, along with reflection questions for teens and adults to think through together.
Read MoreMaking Caring Common’s Caring Schools Network (CSN) team shared some of their favorite empathy-building books for young kids, along with links to audio of the books being read aloud and a list of reflection questions for kids and adults to think through together.
Read MoreTimely reads from the MCC team for the week of January 30, 2023.
Read MoreMaking Caring Common’s Caring Schools Network (CSN) team shares some of their favorite gratitude-focused books for young kids, along with links to audio of the books being read aloud and a list of reflection questions for kids and adults to think through together.
Read MoreTimely reads from the MCC team for the week of November 28, 2022.
Read MoreDeveloping kids’ capacity for gratitude can be more straightforward—and have more benefits—than parents might think. In this blog post, MCC’s Director of Research and Evaluation suggests four building blocks for more grateful kids.
Read MoreNBC Los Angeles report on how LAUSD’s 3rd Street Elementary school is using our Caring Schools Network program to help kids care, connect, and feel a greater sense of belonging at school.
Read MoreLos Angeles’ KTLA reports from LAUSD’s Third Street Elementary School, which is piloting MCC’s Caring Schools Network program.
Read MoreThe Clayton Christiansen Institute’s Julia Freedland Fisher argues that schools miss the big picture when they don’t include relationship data in their data-gathering efforts. Read more in her piece in EdSurge.
Read MoreWant your kids to value their community service? Ask them questions that get them reflecting about what they learned. Check out these suggestions from MCC's faculty director, Rick Weissbourd in HGSE’s Usable Knowledge.
Read MoreKids might feel that the world is spinning out of control after the Uvalde, Texas shooting, MCC’s Rick Weissbourd tells the Los Angeles Times. Parents can support them by helping them turn "passivity into activity."
Read MoreIn this piece for Best Colleges, Mark Drozdowski highlights MCC research and writes that demonstrating good character can give students an edge in college admissions—but it remains unclear just how significant that edge might be.
Read MoreIn the latest from Inside Higher Ed, Richard Weissbourd is quoted in an article about why current admissions and enrollment decision making and desires involve common-sense thinking on location, price and flexibility.
Read MoreOne needs simply to turn on the news to realize that we are a world divided, writes MCC’s Brennan Barnard in Forbes. But what if, instead of a battlefield, the world was a schoolhouse?
Read MoreGratitude is about more than saying “thank you.” If we want to help kids truly develop gratitude, adults need to go a step further — they need to teach kids to notice (who or what we’re grateful for) and think (about why we’re grateful), on a regular basis.
Read more about Making Caring Common’s strategies for developing gratitude in children in this Usable Knowledge piece.
Read More“Rather than telling our kids the most important thing is that they’re happy, we should be telling them the most important thing is that they’re kind.”
Listen to this great interview with MCC Faculty Director Rick Weissbourd in the Shah Family Foundation’s Catalysts for Change podcast.
