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Understanding Inherent Worth: A Path towards Forgiveness
Students explore how every person has dignity and worth—even those who hurt us.
Learning from Courageous Forgivers
Students learn about forgiveness from book characters.
Creating Space for Forgiveness by Letting Go of Anger
Students brainstorm ideas for coping with anger as a first step to forgiveness.
Compass Points
Students develop courage by evaluating an idea or proposition and taking a stance on it.
3-2-1 Bridge
Develop students’ intellectual humility through concept mapping
Random Acts of Kindness
Students practice kindness to increase their happiness
Family Business
Teachers and students create a safe space to develop strong relationships.
Respectful Debate
Students share their opinions and disagreements in healthy ways.
Yes-No-Maybe Current Event Discussion
Students respectfully discuss their stance on a current event.
Norm Co-Creation
Students collaborate on the development of classroom norms.
Designing the Classroom to Promote Kindness
Students provide input on changes that could be made to the classroom to subtly cue kind behavior.
Take-Home Skill: Creating Happy Memories
Students spend a day or two doing a variety of meaningful activities.
Honesty Commitment for Students
Strategies to encourage and help students practice honesty
Good Group Work in Math
A norm-setting activity to help create an environment for productive, positive, and equitable group work in math class
Four 4s
An opening math activity that provides students the opportunity to appreciate different ways of achieving the same answer.
Number Talk
A brief learning activity that demonstrates the many different ways people see math and builds students’ flexibility with numbers.
Dot Card Number Talk
A short but powerful number sense activity that shows students the visual nature of math, creativity in math, and that there are many different ways people see math.
Mindset Boosting Messages for Math
Boost students’ growth mindset in math through a short video and discussion.
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