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6 Insights Into Creating a School Culture of Empathy

A convening of five schools in 2012 yielded these tips on cultivating empathy in your school. The StartEmpathy team gathered together educators from Mission Hill School,Lake Forest Park School, the Center for Inspired Teaching Demonstration School, Georgetown Day School, and Prospect Sierra School -...

6 Insights Into Creating a School Culture of Empathy

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Ashoka Fellow Mary Gordon Featured in TIME Magazine: How to Deprogram Bullies: Teaching Kindness 101

How do we stop the escalating amount of violence and bullying in schools? TIME magazine featured Ashoka Fellow Mary Gordon, founder of Roots of Empathy (ROE), to address this question {here are some excerpts}: One of the most promising antibullying programs, ROE (along with its sister program, Seeds...

Carlogie Primary School

Social justice shapes Carlogie Primary School’s ethos and internal atmosphere, underpinning the way in which students, staff and the wider community interact with one another. The golden thread that has woven all of this together is the school’s identity as a Fairtrade School, where students and...

Sidcot School

“Live Adventurously” is the mission statement at Sidcot School. This saying translates into an approach that encourages individual thought, questioning and exploration. The school’s education is as much about nurturing the spirit as it is about outstanding academic success. There is a real sense of...

Cadoxton Primary School

Cadoxton Primary School is a community school with an ambitious vision for the future of education captured in its motto – “Learning and Growing Together, Being our Best Forever”. The school is at the forefront of integrating digital technology into education and it is a leader for the new changes...

Studio School Liverpool

Operating in a different way from other schools, Studio School Liverpool focuses on equipping young people with the skills, knowledge and practical experience they need to succeed both in life and work. The school specializes in coding, creativity and entrepreneurship and delivers these through its...

Torriano Junior School

Torriano Primary School sits at the heart of a diverse and multicultural neighborhood in inner city London. The children, staff, parents, and community come from a range of ethnic backgrounds and a high number of students have a statement of special educational needs. All aspects of the school and...

Matthew Moss High School

Matthew Moss High School facilitates social and emotional development alongside academics. They believe in students’ life-long and independent learning, meaningful contribution to society and exposure to systems thinking. They uphold a unique learning agenda through learner-led classrooms in which...

Dragon School

Dragon School recognizes that its students are likely to be influential. They are cultivating a generation of empathetic leaders by mobilising children’s natural curiosity and generosity of spirit. They engage every student to participate in social impact activities and become a visionary for the...

Millfields Community School

Millfields has been an UNICEF beacon, Rights Respecting School since 2004. They are diverse in terms of ethnical and cultural backgrounds. Forty-percent of students don’t speak English. They have specialist provisions for special educational needs, autism spectrum disorder and physical disabilities...