Teaching Empathy: A Blueprint for Caring, Compassion, and Community

The Teaching Empathy resource set (book and CD) focuses on teaching the pro-social skill of empathy by naming and practicing it, and by modeling and encouraging it. The four sections of this resource set will help you build a culture of caring in your school:



1. Teaching With Empathy: Connect with students, model pro-social skills, and build trusting relationships through storytelling, symbolic teaching and other strategies.



2. Learning Empathy: Teach students empathy and its companion behaviors of listening, compassion, honor, and generosity through strategies such as Social Skills Learning, cross-training and rituals, and the Fishbowl.



3. Living Empathy: Buil a school culture of empathy through the 10 intentions of the school of belonging.



4. Courageous Conversations: Focus on dilemmas, the powers of choice, and other empathic skills in the mini-empathy curriculum that combines 13 lessons with 8 thought-provoking songs including "Howard Gray"