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Two years ago, at a meeting on science and education, experts challenged video game manufacturers to develop games that emphasize kindness and compassion instead of violence and aggression. 
Community building in the classroom takes time but it may trickle up. It may help create a more compassionate community. Empathy for a scrawny kid may eventually trickle up and make us more tolerant of the politically obnoxious person next door.Empathy for the kid who doesn’t wear designer clothes may eventually trickle up and make us more understanding toward the homeless.
Perhaps it is not just the kids who need teaching. Let’s dream of schools where empathy and compassion yield popularity points. Let’s keep trying to create more compassionate communities. And let’s hope it trickles up to our nation.
by Jane Yoder 
Director and Co-Founder at Mind with Heart, an educators' network for a secular education in empathy and compassion. The main focus is on creating the conditions for young people to come to a firm commitment to empathy and compassion based on their own reasoning, experience and initiative.
Hosting the Conference: Empathy and Compassion in Society. The Conference will address three topics: 
Teachers who learn to collaborate, resolve conflicts, and respect multiple perspectives become powerful role models for students.
The documentary Bully has forced teachers and principals to renew their efforts to find ways to end bullying in schools. Although experts have identified steps schools should take to end bullying, the broader challenge—creating a culture of empathy—remains. According to educator Vinciane Rycroft, co-founder of U.K.-based charity Mind with Heart, if teachers want to address the root of the problem they must become models of empathy, altruism, and compassion.
by LIZ DWYER 
Victoria Kindle Hodson, MA holds degrees in education and psychology and has been a classroom teacher in public, private, and Montessori schools—preschool through college. She is the co-founder and co-director of Kindle-Hart Communication and the Learning Success Institute. Victoria is an educator, author, consultant, curriculum developer, and co-designer of The No Fault Zone Game. 
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Panel# 002-A: How does The No-Fault Zone Game teach and support creating a culture of empathy in schools
The No-Fault Zone Game helps create a culture of empathy in schools by providing hands-on materials that students and teachers use throughout the school day to: understand themselves, empathize with others, solve problems, resolve conflicts collaboratively.
The Game is also used to enrich academics, helping students understand characters in literature and history, and strengthen their own story-telling and writing. Conference: Education 
Rather than think of empathy as an ingredient in education – think of education and its disciplines – from history to literature to the arts – as ingredients in empathy. - Steve Nelson, Head, Calhoun
When Steve Nelson meets with prospective parents weighing whether or not to send their kids to Calhoun, he likes to start with a little exercise. After they’ve gathered in the school auditorium, he poses a simple challenge: “I want you to think of the one or two qualities you want your children to exemplify in their lives, and then speak them out loud.” A few seconds go by. And then the words start coming: Honesty. Compassion. Integrity. Empathy. Leadership. Imagination. 
Ashoka Changemakers, the online community for social entrepreneurs and changemakers organized a Twitter based chat on ‘Activating Empathy’ on March 20, 2012. This online discussion was part of Ashoka Changemakers latest collaborative competition titled Activating Empathy: Transforming Schools to Teach What Matters. 
The problem is that by approaching this as a question of sympathy it's all about how the speaker thinks the world should work, and the speaker's frustration that the world's not working that way.....
Empathy helps us see the challenge from different perspectives. It lets us consider why those who oppose our noble efforts might see things differently, better understand their concerns, and perhaps identify opportunities to solve problems together. By abandoning sweeping proclamations for specific queries, it allows us to isolate opportunities for agreement and the more limited number of places where we'll need to have the knock-down, drag-out fights. Empathy is ultimately the difference between cage-busters who implode amidst endless battles and those who, studying their Sun-Tzu, operate with determination and deliberation.
by Education policy maven Rick Hess of the Conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank. 
World-renowned author and 2008 TED Prize recipient Karen Armstrong will make her inaugural ‘State of the Charter for Compassion’ address during her ‘Twelve Days of Compassion’ visit, hosted by Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue.
A grade-four class is gathered around a blanket, intent as Mei, a six-month-old baby girl, stretches to reach a toy. One boy smiles and cheers baby Mei on: “Come on, come on!” His brow furrows with concern as little Mei does a face plant, and then relaxes after she’s comforted with a reassuring look and pat from Mom. When Mei finally triumphs and reaches the toy, the kids clap and squeal with delight. This scene is an almost daily occurrence with Roots of Empathy, an award-winning program developed by Newfoundland-born educator Mary Gordon. 
Stan Davis has worked for human rights in many different ways. In the 1960s he worked in the US Civil Rights movement. As a social worker and child and family therapist in the 1970s and 1980s, he worked with abused, traumatized, and grieving children and trained Child Protective Workers. |
Take a look inside The Mission Hill School, a Boston public pilot school, where education focuses on the whole child rather than the test. "We are not just including people, we are embracing people. This idea of empathy is just crucial."
Starts talking about collaboration and empathy from the 3 min mark onward.
StartEmpathy is a community of individuals and institutions dedicated to cultivating empathy in the 21st Century. This website is meant as a platform to facilitate empathy learning in our schools and in our homes.
We define empathy as the ability to understand the feelings and perspectives of others, and to use that understanding to guide one’s actions. Our premise is that empathy is critical both to individual human development and to our collective ability to solve problems and build a stronger society. 
Educating Hearts: A Districtwide Initiative to Teach How to Care... In Alaska, the Anchorage School District's investment in social and emotional learning is paying off both socially and academically. 
Vinciane Rycroft considers the value of teaching compassion in schools...
Many commentators are now calling for children to be educated in empathy and compassion. Bill Drayton for example, one of the fathers of social entrepreneurship, calls on educators to ensure that every young person learns applied empathy to avoid being marginalised...
An education in empathy gives young people opportunities to acknowledge the perspective of others. An education in compassion brings it one step further by identifying our fleeting response to an individual’s suffering and transforming it into a sustained altruistic attitude. 
There's a new subject being taught in public schools and some colleges today that wasn't around when I went to school. It's called empathy. Apparently the plan is to teach kids to have empathy for other people in the world. It's a sort of variation of teaching multiculturalism.
In another area, I know a father who was denied custody of his children because the judge ruled he didn't have enough empathy. She had no credentials for making that judgment, but Family Court judges can issue any order they want. There is no scientific definition of empathy, so any empathy decision is based on the biases and prejudices of the instructor or judge...
There is no scientific definition of empathy, so any empathy decision is based on the biases and prejudices of the instructor or judge.
[Philis Schlafly talks about her concerns about teaching empathy in the shools]
One of the benefits of Exquisite Learning is that it can be used to help students improve their empathy skills. Empathy is one aspect of social and emotional learning that involves understanding and being sensitive to the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of another person. Often times, these feelings are communicated non-verbally or through body language.
The roots of empathy can be traced all the way back to infancy (Goleman, 98.) As children grow older, their empathy skills can be shaped by seeing how others react when someone else is distressed; by intimating what they see, children develop a repertoire of empathic response, especially in helping other people who are distressed (Goleman, 99.)
Empathy is also a base for moral judgment and action. Many people's altruistic actions when helping a distressed person are strongly tied to their empathic feelings. 
I uploaded an interview with Nadine Dolby In her wonderful new book, she writes about how to restructure Multicultural Education so that it's based on empathy!
'By drawing on breakthrough research in two fields—neuroscience and animal studies—Nadine Dolby argues that empathy is an underlying element of all living beings. Dolby shows how this commonality can provide a scaffolding for building an exciting new approach to developing multicultural and global consciousness, one that has the potential to transform how our students see and relate to the world around them.'
Ashoka — a global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs – has launched a new initiative called Start Empathy. Start Empathy is a community of individuals and institutions dedicated to cultivating empathy in the 21st Century. Our premise is that empathy is a critical skill both for individual human development and for our collective ability to solve problems and build a stronger society.
Stay tuned for the upcoming launch of Start Empathy on the web, where we’ll spark a conversation about why empathy matters and how we can cultivate it together, starting in our schools today! 
Author, Teaching Empathy: A Blueprint for Caring, Compassion, and Community
"Empathy education is one of the most critical educational issues of our time because it is only when students feel emotionally safe and secure in all areas of the school environment—in the classroom, hallway, or cafeteria; at recess; and on the bus—that they will begin to focus and tap into the unlimited potential that lies within each of them. " 
High school students are cool. At least that’s the sentiment among the third-graders who Staples senior Izzy Baker interacts with as a student leader in the Kool to be Kind anti-bullying program being piloted in two Westport elementary schools.
...Rather than having adults try to teach children about the importance of being kind, the program uses trained high school students to teach interactive lessons that promote kindness, empathy and the creation of allies.
by Vanessa Inzitari 
Strong academic skills aren't enough to guarantee success for 21st-century students. Now, one group is looking to broaden what our children are taught.
Ashoka Changemakers, a nonprofit that provides tools and resources to help people improve their communities, is looking for entries for "Activating Empathy," a competition seeking to spotlight and support smart ideas, programs, and learning models that build students' abilities to collaborate and communicate effectively, resolve conflicts, and respect multiple perspectives.
by LIZ DWYER et's explore how Rapport unfolds into empathy as an ability once it is a skill. This video extends our dialog in the Activating Empathy: Transforming Schools To Teach What Matters. AKRNA's entry is: 
Bridget Cooper is Professor of Education at the University of Sunderland in the UK. Bridget has taught for 31 years in schools, adult education and Higher Education in various capacities across the age and attainment range. Author: Empathy in Education: Engagement, values and achievement |
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