Hacking School Culture: Designing Compassionate Classrooms

by Angela Stockman, Ellen Feig Gray

If you could teach all kids empathy, tolerance, and compassion, wouldn't teaching all things be easier? Bullying prevention and character building programs are deepening our awareness of how today's kids struggle and how we might help, but many They aren't enough to create school cultures where students and staff flourish. This inspired Angela Stockman and Ellen Feig Gray to begin seeking out systems and educators who were getting things right. Read it today--fix it tomorrow Their experiences taught them that the real game changers are using a human-centered approach. Inspired by other design thinkers, many teachers are creating learning environments where seeking a greater understanding of themselves and others is the highest standard. They're also realizing that compassion is best cultivated in the classroom, not the boardroom or the auditorium. It's here that we learn how to pull one another close. It's here that we begin to negotiate the distances between us, too. Ready to begin but uncertain how? Here's what you'll find Compassionate classrooms are built one learner at a time. Be that learner. It's time.

Genres: Education

198 pages, Paperback

Published May 5, 2018

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I preferred _Hacking School Discipline_ over this text. Some of the ideas in this book, while 'nice,' either weren't practical for the type of school setting I teach in, were too elementary in idea/implementation, or too unrealistic in nature. Some nice gems of thoughts in it, though.

[Destiny Hagenow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great tips and ideas for creating more compassionate classrooms. These work K-12.