{"id":3943,"date":"2023-03-23T12:08:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2023-03-23T12:08:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:08:35","slug":"spreading-kindness-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/spreading-kindness-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreading Kindness Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student Contributor -M. Blockhan
\nThis project is a variation of the Kindness Rocks Project<\/a>. Instead of painting kind messages on a rock, students will write notes to encourage and uplift each other. The purpose of this project is to show students the power of kindness and encourage them to spread kindness to others. Once everyone has written their notes, students will read them aloud to the class before hanging them up on a kindness wall in the classroom. The kindness wall will be designed and put up by the teacher before students complete the activity.\"\"<\/p>\n

This project will begin with a brief discussion about what kindness is. The teacher will then help students brainstorm potential things they can say before passing out materials and releasing students to get to work on their notes. This project is a service to the community because it encourages students to spread positivity and treat each other with kindness and respect. Not only are students demonstrating kindness to their classmates, but they are spreading it to the rest of the school by displaying their notes in the hallway outside their classroom. Unfortunately, this project did not have as powerful of an impact on my students as I thought and hoped it would. Only one of the seven students was able to come up with something kind to say on their own. The rest of them struggled with the project and did not appear to get much out of it because, sadly, they did not possess the background knowledge needed to complete it.<\/p>\n

\"\"The project did not go as well as I had hoped it would. Some of my students got really invested in the project and others struggled to get any words down on paper. All of them had trouble coming up with kind things to say, so the brainstorming section turned into me giving them multiple examples and instructing them to pick one to write on their paper. I realized that I should have come to class with more examples prepared because kindness comes so naturally to me that I was having trouble thinking of examples myself. My advice to others who may do this same project would be to ensure that students have a solid understanding of kindness and what it means to be kind to others before brainstorming ideas of what to say. In addition, I would encourage the instructor to have some examples and explanations of why the examples are good prepared beforehand so that they do not ending up having the same problem that I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This project is a variation of the Kindness Rocks Project. Instead of painting kind messages on a rock, students will write notes to encourage and uplift each other. The purpose of this project is to show students the power of kindness and encourage them to spread kindness to others. Once everyone has written their notes, students will read them aloud to the class before hanging them up on a kindness wall in the classroom. The kindness wall will be designed and put up by the teacher before students complete the activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2049,"featured_media":3944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,14,16],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-project","tag-3rd-5th-grade","tag-6th-8th-grade","tag-k-2nd-grade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943"}],"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=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}