{"id":3534,"date":"2020-03-10T14:38:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T21:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2020-03-11T07:05:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:05:44","slug":"the-kindness-rocks-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/the-kindness-rocks-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kindness Rocks Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student Contributor -A. Slotemaker<br \/>\nThe Kindness Rocks project was originally started to spread kindness throughout a small community. It quickly grew into a project that encourages people to leave painted rocks with inspiring and kind messages along all paths of life. The mission of the Kindness Rocks Project is,\u201cOne message At just the right moment Can change someone\u2019s entire day, Outlook, Life.\u201d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2020\/03\/2-300x151.png\" class=\"size-medium alignleft wp-image-3536\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2020\/03\/2-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2020\/03\/2-1024x514.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2020\/03\/2-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2020\/03\/2-1536x771.png 1536w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2020\/03\/2-2048x1028.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Kindness Rocks Project makes a difference anywhere from small communities, to a global scale. This project was created to spread kindness to strangers on any path of life, and quickly has become an excellent way demonstrate social and emotional learning in the classroom, and throughout the communities. Teachers and schools partner with the Kindness Rocks Project for the benefits of social and emotional learning that the organization brings into the classroom. Creating and distributing the Kindness Rocks creates academic success for students by, developing stronger social\/emotional skills which improves academic performance of students, creating fewer behavioral problems because students are engaged in social\/emotional learning to be less disruptive, and students develop positive social behavior and less emotional distress. The best part about the Kindness Rocks Project is, it not only creates a ripple of kindness in the community, but it benefits students on immense levels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2020\/03\/3-300x229.png\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-3537\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2020\/03\/3-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2020\/03\/3.png 712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Teachers and students can partner with The Kindness Rocks Project by creating rocks and placing\/hiding them around their school community, their neighboring communities, or even globally to soldiers, students, aid workers, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kindness Rocks project was originally started to spread kindness throughout a small community. It quickly grew into a project that encourages people to leave painted rocks with inspiring and kind messages along all paths of life. The mission of the Kindness Rocks Project is,\u201cOne message At just the right moment Can change someone\u2019s entire day, Outlook, Life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2049,"featured_media":3535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15,17],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic","tag-global-organization","tag-local-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3538,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions\/3538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}