Recently there have been kindness movements happening throughout the country designed for educators and everyday citizens, with one goal in mind: spreading the message and act of being kind.

Stacy Weber, a fifth-grade teacher in a dual language program in Woodstock, Illinois, to shed some light on this and understand how she’s teaching kindness.

We have a challenging curriculum and social issues start to brew more in fifth grade; being kind to both other people and yourself is necessary in order to work through any of that.

The first is the Great Kindness Challenge, which this year took place January 22-28th, and which is designed for participation by schools and families to empower students to create a culture of kindness. In 2017, over 10 million students at over 15,000 schools in 90 countries completed over 500 million acts of kindness.

Stacy incorporated the #GreatKindnessChallenge into her own classroom by working with her students and her partner teacher Kathe Lacey-Anderson, to perform as many random acts of kindness as possible. It was a schoolwide event, and each classroom kept track of their acts of kindness.

Stacy’s class also participates in the Random Act of Kindness Week which takes place February 11-17th.

Read the full article on kindness by Janice Walton at Getting Smart