Kind schools. Work of the task force -- Work of action groups -- Activities. 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 boxes and notes -- 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. 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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