To find what you need quickly, sort the practices by age level and duration.
Take-Home Skill: Nurture a Value Diversity Mindset in Teens
Help adolescents reflect on the importance of recognizing different cultural and social identities.
Take Home Skill: Growing Civic Empowerment
Parents/caregivers and their teens discuss issues in their community and in the world, and think together about how they can make an impact.
Awe-Inspiring Affirmations
Cultivate joy, optimism, and hope through student-written affirmations.
Using Art to Build Bridges
Students engage in art to reflect on and practice perspective-giving and taking skills.
Courage Blooms
Recognize and name emotions that can lead to acts of courage.
Inspiring Climate Awareness Through Gratitude
Students consider the impact of climate change on something they love in nature.
Courage Challenge
Students explore and enact the character strengths that undergird courage: honesty, zest, perseverance, and bravery.
Identifying Acts of Courage
Students reflect on various definitions and acts of courage—and consider why they think courage is important.
Courageous and Compassionate Citizens
Students foster courage to collectively problem solve.
The Bystander’s Dilemma: What Does Courage Look Like?
Students reflect on an ethical dilemma and consider how to prioritize their values—and respond courageously.
Finding Awe in Collective Acts of Kindness
Inspire students to kindness through the “collective effervescence” of animals
Contemplating Awe-Inspiring Systems
Experience the vast interconnectedness of our world
Creating Musical Playlists for the Classroom
Experience music together to inspire awe, cultivate an awareness of emotions, and craft connection in the classroom.
Take-Home Skill: Listening to Your Teen with Compassion
Help parents/caregivers and teens develop compassionate listening skills and strengthen their relationship.
Take-Home Skill: Expanding What’s Culturally Familiar— Broadening Your Sense of “We”
Grow teens’ understanding and sense of comfort with diverse cultural identities, helping to foster a sense of civil courage
Take-Home Skill: Helping Teens Recognize Our Potential for Change
Help teens consider a mindset that people can change their attitudes about others for the better.
Take-Home Skill: Navigating Emotions
Notice and experience challenging emotions and related bodily sensations as they arise.
Take-Home Skill: Create Trust with Respectful Communication Agreements
Build trust with your teens at home.
Are you ready to build a kinder, happier school where everyone belongs? Join Greater Good Educators! Explore the science of well-being in a supportive community of educators from around the world. Registration is now open for the 2025-2026 school year!