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Random Acts of Kindness Week

Today marks the start of Random Act of Kindness Week, which includes Random Acts of Kindness Day on Thursday, February 17th! We invite you to join the celebrations using hashtags #MakeKindnessTheNorm, #RandomActsofKindnessDay, and #RAKDay on social media. Find activities for your lessons in the resources in this section. 

Grades K-12

Random Acts of Kindness

Inspire people to practice kindness and empathy and pass it on to others. Explore lesson plans, classroom materials, projects, ideas for courses, and RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) clubs. Find research, videos, and stories about random acts of kindness.

Grades K-12

The Nora Project Resources for Educators

Discover activities and resources for educators that promote disability inclusion and connect learning about disabilities to real-world situations. Visit the Kindness Library to find books and lesson plans. There is also a calming room with music.

Grades K-5

Be Fearless Be Kind

Be Fearless Be Kind is an empathy toolkit developed to help kids become change-makers by fostering empathy and leadership, creative problem solving, and teamwork. Sample categories include “Build the Foundation” and “Identify Feelings.”

Grades 8-12

@stake

Try out this online game for 3–5 players (all in the same room) to build creativity and empathy through small group deliberations. The game consists of three rounds of discussion and debate and ends with the group's choice of the best idea.

Grades K-12

Inspire My Kids

Find inspiring, age-appropriate real stories, videos, and projects to share with your students that demonstrate excellent values like courage, determination, honesty, humility, kindness, responsibility, and tolerance.

Grades 7-12

Do Something.org

Empower your students and learn more about this large organization that helps young people take action by promoting causes they care about and motivates them with realistic, creative inspiration to establish a culture of volunteerism.

Grades K-12

Pennies for Peace

The Pennies for Peace curriculum directly links to grade-level social studies, math, and literacy standards. View the extensive toolkit that shows how to implement the campaign and provides background resources and curriculum materials for all grades.

Special Topics Related to Kindness

The three curated lists of resources shared in this section can empower your students to practice kindness. Fnd collections related to social-emotional learning, empathy, and having difficult conversations with compassion. 

Grades K-12

Social and Emotional Learning Resources

Using social and emotional skills, students better understand emotions, manage their feelings, and show empathy towards others. Find appropriate tools and resources to use with your students of all grade levels and in your lessons.

Grades K-12

Resources Related to Difficult Conversations

The resources shared in this collection will give you ideas on how to start and facilitate tough conversations about topics like inequality, injustice, and politics sensitively while accomplishing learning goals and teaching kindness.

Grades K-12

Understanding Empathy

In this curated collection of reviewed resources, we share tools and activities that will help you create lessons and experiences that cultivate empathy and kindness in your students. There are also informational websites about this important topic.

This Week at TeachersFirst

Join us this week for a professional learning workshop on Tuesday, and come tweet with us on Thursday during our bi-monthly Twitter chat! We’re also sharing a related blog post and our weekly poll.