Book Club: An Introduction to Hack 7--Embrace Experiential Learning
Education theorist and psychologist David A. Kolb, Ph.D defines learning as "the process whereby knowledge is created through the...
Book Club: An Introduction to Hack 1: Developing Self-Compassion
When Angela and I began discussing compassionate classrooms, we immediately thought of how many of us have a tendency to suffer from...
Book Club: Reflecting on Our Introduction
Read along with us, and share your thinking as you do. Gain access to practical tools and resources that can help you lead this work in clas
Designing Your Compassionate Classroom: Lessons from the Lotus Flower
Last week, I suggested that distinguishing responsibility from response ability enables teachers to attend to their students' diverse...
Improving School Culture by Distinguishing Responsibility from Response Ability
"I have a real concern about the way these kids treat each other," he said. We were gathered in the school library for another...
Listening to Parents: Outside the Box in a Cookie Cutter School
In the classroom, Angela has used Empathy Mapping to help students and teachers put themselves in each other’s shoes and to better understan
Listening to Parents: Speaking Up and Building Empathy
The Parkland kids are applying the skills and dispositions they have learned and practiced since they were young children to address the mos
Listening to Parents: My Kid Hates School (And He Used to Love It)
The other day I ran into a mom of a 9-year-old on my lunchtime walk. She had taken one of my parent workshop series so she knew I was...
Listening to Parents: On Privilege
Compassionate classrooms help students become increasingly sensitive to the many faces of privilege. I was thinking about this as I...
Listening to the Teacher: Talking with Kids About Privilege
Ellen and I stumbled upon this powerful video not too long ago. The Life of Privilege Explained in a $100 Race packs an important punch,...
