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Meet the 2017-18 Making Caring Common Youth Advisory Board

We're so excited to announce the 2017-18 Making Caring Common Youth Advisory Board!

The Youth Advisory Board (YAB) is a diverse group of young people from across the country who are committed to making schools more caring and respectful places through everyday interactions. This year's board hails from 14 states and represents a wide range of communities and experiences. We're thrilled to welcome them into the Making Caring Common family and introduce them to you.

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Bringing Kindness to School Lunch with Natalie Hampton

High school senior Natalie Hampton knows what it’s like to eat lunch alone. In junior high, she experienced bullying and harassment so severe that she eventually transferred to a different school. As she shared with Making Caring Common, “More than any of the physical attacks or verbal bullying, [eating lunch alone] demonstrated to me how ostracized I was from my school community, and it grew to be more hopeless as more and more people walked past my table without stopping.”

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Press Release: Leaning Out

Will teen girls close the gender gap? Making Caring Common study finds unexpected biases against their leadership. Researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education find that not only many teen boys but many teen girls and some parents appear to have biases against teen girls as leaders.

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