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VIRGINIA KINDNESS RESOURCE FAIR 2021

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Donna Pitts Melissa Otley Lauren Kershner Stephanie Coble King William County Henrico County Amherst County York County

Rachel Delaney Kristin Merica Elizabeth Uffelman Chesterfield County Prince William County Nelson County

Jentae Scott-Mayo Kristin Maddox Henrico County Amherst County

Ieshia Lee Sarah Ritchie Prince William County King George County Table of Contents

Gratitude Grams Click on any of the following initiatives to learn more. RAK Club and and Presentation Video Presentation Video

Kindness Week Challenge Great Kindness Challenge and RAK Challenge and and Presentation Video VIDEO Presentation VIDEO Presentation Post-It Positives and Kindness Matters Lesson and Kindness & Collaboration Week Presentation Video Presentation Video and Presentation Video Classroom Secret Pals and Affirmations- Building your Presentation Video Building and Beyond and Presentation Video Go Be Kind- Kindness Krew and Presentation Video

“Throw Kindness Like Confetti”, Virtual Dance Party! and Presentation Video Virtual Bingo Board and Presentation Video Objectives: This is a new initiative/ idea in To help students “ Grams” light of having to put a “virtual further “connect” in a spin” on “Great Kindness virtual learning Challenge/ Kindness Week” environment. Abstract activities. SPMS Leadership Teams- Next Generation Puma Leaders and To provide a “virtual Ambassadors will assist counselors in sending "gratitude volunteer/ gram" e-mails w/ a template to students on behalf of other involvement/ service students. learning task/ project This will further reinforce our school goal/ transition to having to student leaders. students accountable for checking their gmail e-mail accounts. We will have a Google Form for each day, due by 2:30pm. Counselors and student leaders will “meet” from 2:30-3:15pm, each day of the week (whomever is available) and “divide and conquer” Google Form entries.

Materials: Implementation Timeline or Tips Computer/ Google Forms/ E-Mail Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Brief student Have Delineate/ assign groups of student Who is involved? leaders on task/ students entries for each student 6th-8th Grades expectation. complete leader to email on School Counselors/ Have student Google Doc behalf of during a 45 Staff Volunteers during minute after school leaders sign up for “work shift(s). advisory. work session.. Table of Contents Gratitude Grams Presentation Video

Table of Contents What were the objectives? How were students ● To promote kindness RAK Challenge impacted? throughout the school. ● Show the value of Students were given a chance During the month of February, students at Rockfish being kind. to celebrate their acts of were given a list of acts of kindness. Student Council ● Encourage school kindness and take pride in Association members helped distribute the forms connectedness. what they had done. Students (different color for each grade). Student Council recognize the importance of students also shared quotes they selected about being kind through a school What materials or resources kindness on the morning announcements during the wide celebration. We had are needed? Week of Feb 11 - 15th. The grade who completed the hundreds of students turn in ★ Acts of Kindness lists most acts of kindness was awarded a treat of ice cream their acts of kindness - 3rd appropriate for each during lunch. We also celebrated with the whole school grade had the most with 42/51 age range (K-2) and on February 14th by “throwing kindness like confetti.” (3-5) students turning theirs in. ★ Ice cream cups! ★ Colorful slips of paper Implementation Timeline or Tips for “confetti” Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Grade Level(s): K - 5 Choose Print out lists Count the # of Student Council Association Kindness for all challenges distributes the RAK lists to Challenge students, completed. each classroom. lists assigning a Give out ice Staff involvement: Teachers appropriate different cream to the review the challenge with for each colored list for grade with the age range. each grade. most!!!! students. On Valentine’s Day Table of Contents they are allowed to wear jeans :) RAK Challenge Presentation Video

Table of Contents What were the objectives? How were students EC4. Understand the importance of teamwork impacted? in working towards a common goal Kindness and Collaboration Week

EP2. Understand how to make and keep Students received specific instruction friends and work cooperatively with others Abstract on how to collaborate kindly and We noticed a trend of major/minor incident reports effectively and were able to practice EP4. Demonstrate manners and those skills in real time. Grades 3-5 respectful behavior towards others and referrals to counselors during class used this self-reflection tool to think collaborative projects. To address this, we partnered EA8. Work cooperatively in small and large about their collaboration skills and groups towards a common goal with the STEAM department to directly teach kind identify areas that they could collaboration skills during every step of a group improve upon, while Pk-2 discussed project. Students then put their knowledge to use by them as a class. What materials or resources designing and creating a “pop-up card” for a Students were extremely proud of their creations, and their team work. are needed? “helper” in the building. Teams shared out their In addition, staff who are often cards with their classmates, then delivered the cards overlooked on holidays (custodial, Morning Meeting Slide Deck to their helpers on Valentine’s Day. cafeteria, nurse) felt very Construction paper, glue, appreciated by the volume and tape, other craft materials thoughtfulness of the cards they received. Implementation Timeline or Tips Our plan had been to identify students who struggled with this Who is involved? activity for a Tier 2 intervention, but Covid-19 closures interrupted that! Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

PK-5th grade Collaboration Roll out materials Week of: float to Meeting with to homeroom classrooms to Image? Graph? STEAM Department and STEAM teachers a week support process or prior to the event specific students. Department to Counseling Department - take questions, Take photos, share Link to Stakeholder create slidedeck provide support or stakeholder letter Homeroom teachers / reflection materials. in the weekly Letter sheets family newsletter. Table of Contents Kindness and Collaboration Presentation

Table of Contents What were the objectives? How were students impacted? - Improve school climate and Affirmations- Building your raise staff morale Last year, we had a total of Building and Beyond 416 staff-shout-outs! When - Increase visibility of and collaboration with counseling staff feels seen, acknowledged, department and appreciated, they will have Abstract more positive at - Model affirmations for staff After several years of administrative shuffles, I and students work—particularly when facing implemented a monthly staff shout-out program to adversity. increase the sense of community within our When students participate in building. The program has built positive school-wide service projects, What materials or resources climate, provided monthly data, and vessel for leadership clubs, or other are needed? modelling kindness and encouragement for others. initiatives, students are able to By starting at the foundation of your building—your "" - Staff Shout Out Form (Here) staff—you can create a culture of kindness from the - Template for Monthly inside out. Highlights (Here) -Optional: Incentives for Implementation Timeline or Tips You can see my results Monthly winners (we use $5 and more information on cards for coffee) Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 the next page!

Create form Collect data, Review themes Who is involved? and explain paste into and select rationale of shout-out individual(s) to Grade Level(s) 6-8 shout-outs. template and highlight each Staff Involvement- All Staff Send to all print month

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Table of Contents Objectives • Improve school climate “Throw Kindness Like Confetti” Student Impact • M 3. Sense of belonging in Virtual Dance Party Students receive a mental the school environment break to connect. “let loose”, • B-SS 2. Create positive and Student ambassadors assist the and spread kindness to supportive relationships with School Counseling team in planning themselves and others during other students kindness initiatives throughout the what has been a stressful time. • B-SS 3. Create relationships month of January at HCMS. An end The event is intended to with adults that support of the month celebration is planned create sense of belonging and success in the form of a virtual dance party improve the school climate. to spread intentional kindness and positive vibes. Students have Materials & Resources expressed a for bonding time • Party playlist with their peers and teachers, and • Promotional flyer this event provides them the • Kindness Chat Prompts opportunity. • Props (costumes, lights, confetti) Implementation Timeline or Tips

Step 1: Student Step 2: Promote Step 3: Set Who? ambassadors the event by expectations, and school sharing flyers, Show up with • Grade Levels: 6-8 counselors making and • Staff Involvement: All staff collaborate on announcements, creativity. are invited to attend and planning event and securing Delegate tasks engage in the event. The more details and buy-in from (Event MC, the merrier! curating a students and Chat MC, DJ, playlist staff Bouncer, etc.) Table of Contents Virtual Dance Party Presentation

Table of Contents What were the objectives? Kindness Week Challenge Kindness Week To educate and encourage Challenge kindness throughout our school community using Abstract purposeful daily challenges Monday: Say “Good

Morning, Good We take the opportunity to explicitly teach kindness Afternoon, or “Have a by encouraging our school community to meet a kindness challenge each day for a week. great day” to as many What materials or resources people as you can are needed? Tuesday: Make Promotional Flyer someone smile today!

Wednesday: Offer to Implementation Timeline or Tips help someone

Who is involved? Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Thursday: Say “Hello” to someone you ● School-wide Activity Identify when Promote event Encourage usually do not speak to ● Grades 6-8 your challenge utilizing flyers, participation each ● Staff also participate and day with daily will take place announcements, reminders, incorporate challenges and identify a and social announcements, Friday: Say “Thank into classroom lesson challenge for media tweets, and your own You” or write a “Thank participation. each day You” note Table of Contents Kindness Challenge Presentation

Table of Contents What were the objectives? Post-It Positives Allows students to be recognize the positives within themselves and others Abstract

This activity allows students the opportunity to What materials or resources “post” positives about themself or someone else. A are needed? “Post-It Positives” wall is created so students’ can “post” their positives. If in-person Post-it notes A display area

If online Padlet or similar site Implementation Timeline or Tips

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● School-wide Activity Create a space Promote activity Encourage ● Grades 6-8 that students by sharing that participation each day with daily will be able to students have reminders, “post” their an opportunity announcements, positives to post positives tweets, and your own Table of Contents participation. Post-It Positives Presentation

Table of Contents What were the objectives? How were students Our objective was to provide RAK Club impacted? opportunities for students and staff to engage in random One of the activities that acts of kindness with our Abstract directly impacted our entire school and local community. student body was our Locker At Amherst Middle School, we focus on our Big Tag activity. Three- Respect, Responsibility, and Resilience. One of the ways that the School Counseling Program We also celebrate Random What materials or resources supports this focus is through our Kindness Initiative. Acts of Kindness Week and are needed? We focus on acts of kindness throughout our school Unity Day with special year that will help support our school and our activities such as Spirit Weeks Random Acts of Kindness community. and school wide lessons. Foundation Implementation Timeline or Tips

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Students sign up to At the beginning of At each meeting, we Grades 6-8 join us on club day. the school year, complete an act of Clubs usually meet students help kindness activity Any Staff are welcome to join about 1x per month. determine which acts that was chosen by of kindness they students. Examples us on club days and we would like to include locker tags encourage staff engagement complete during the and Christmas cards and support! school year. for our local nursing Table of Contents home. RAK Club Presentation

Table of Contents What were the objectives? How were students Kindness Matters Lesson impacted? 1. Students will be able to discuss what it means to them Abstract Explain any outcomes to be kind. Being kind to others boosts serotonin. Serotonin is responsible for of the initiative. Both 2. Students will work as a of satisfaction and well-being. Kindness leads to many good qualitative or classroom team to make a things (good relationships, self-esteem, good mental and physical quantitative data is kindness poster for an essential health and future success). We all want that for ourselves and our valuable worker during the pandemic. families. This lesson helps students realize that others have sacrificed *To be determined at so much during the pandemic to care for us. A small thank you for the end of January that kindness may strengthen someone else’s heart so that they can when the lesson is What materials or resources continue their daily work. The is that a small thank you or act of are needed? completed. kindness will help someone through a stressful day!

1. Lesson Powerpoint January 4 - January 29, 2021 Timeline 2. Poster board or roll paper 3. Crayons, markers, etc. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Image Kindness Matters In art class, 1. Class poster Who is involved? Lesson with all brainstorm completion. Grades 3, 4, and 5 classes. School ideas and work 2. Counselor makes (3rd - 5th grade school) Counselor is the on the project video 3. Video posted on instructor. poster as a Acquinton Staff Involvement: class. Kindness Matters Facebook page. Art teacher Lesson Slides 4. Posters displayed around the school Table of Contents Student Video building Kindness Matters Lesson Video Presentation

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● Complete as many acts of The Great Kindness Challenge The evidence of The Great Kindness kindness as you can in Challenge can be felt in the one week classrooms and seen in the hallways Abstract at Central Elementary School. ● Show the world that KINDNESS MATTERS! The Great Kindness Challenge is an “It’s always an exciting week. It centers their attention on being kind. annual initiative that encourages It is legitimately contagious.” -CES What materials are needed? students to complete acts of kindness Principal, Derek Adam

● GKC Toolkit from a kid-created checklist. From 2017-2020, checklist data ● Kindness Checklists “One Week. One Checklist. Infinite !” shows that CES students, families, (editable!) and staff have completed 4,393 acts ○ Virtual Classroom of kindness during The Great ○ In Person w/Social “One of the most difficult things to give away is Kindness Challenge. Distancing kindness; usually it comes back to you.” —Unknown

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Everyone!

● Junior Edition Checklist - 25 items First Next Then... ● 3-5 Checklist - 50 items ● Create a FREE ● Tell everyone ● Promote ● Family Edition - 50 items account ● Teach a your ● Faculty & Staff - BINGO Card ● Sign up your lesson program! school ● Check out & ● Create a ...and BE choose your culture of Table of Contents tools KINDNESS! KIND! Great Kindness Challenge Presentation

Table of Contents What were the objectives? How were students impacted? 1. EP2. Understand how to Secret Pal Class make and keep friends and The lesson and activities were work cooperatively with Abstract powerful. As the month went on, others This lesson provided students the opportunity to discover there was excitement in the air and 2. EC7. Recognize the benefits what kindness meant to them. What you believe is kind of what kind things of both individual initiative were to come. Honestly, by the end and teamwork may be different than what another person thinks, and of the month EP4. Demonstrate good that is okay. An excellent way to create a definition of manners and respectful KINDNESS WAS CONTAGIOUS! behavior towards others by kindness for yourself is to think of a time in your life when Staff and students were “paying being kind. someone was kind to you. How did it make you feel? That forward” kindness on a daily basis. feeling is your personal definition of kindness. You should Follow-up classroom discussions confirmed that kindness starts What materials or resources strive to help others feel as good or as special as you did within yourself, and daily are needed? at that time. The lesson objective was that the secret pal ● Computer with movie maker or choices can make your life and a video maker app (ex. Adobe class initiative would help students begin to discover their the life of someone else better. Spark) definition of kindness. ● Camera ● Student supplies for posters Implementation Timeline: The entire month of January and etc. “THE BIG REVEAL” ● Kindness Powerpoint (Project explanation) Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 School Counselor puts KINDNESS VIDEO Kindness lesson Weekly kind acts together a schoolwide Who is involved? for all students. occur video

Teachers draw School Counselor All grade levels (3rd - 5th) Students watch the video secret pal class videos kind acts and have a discussion name with the counselor about Staff Involvement: All staff the month Kindness Secret Class Pals

Table of Contents What were the objectives? ● Improve school climate How were students and raise staff morale Go Be Kind - Kindness Krew impacted? ● Demonstrate Students of all ages have a ● Create positive Our school needed a SPARK of kindness… I wrote a chance to be a leader and relationships among letter to Leon Logothetis, the author of the Kindness learn how to work on a team. students and staff Diaries books and Netflix series telling him about my They are teaching others to be ● Leadership and goals of starting a kindness club. He came to visit and kind to others but also how to Teamwork we held a Kindness Assembly for our 900+ students be kind to themselves. We and staff. I invited the newspaper to come to tell our currently work together community what we are doing! With his help, we held virtually and have been able What materials or resources our first Kindness Krew Meeting and began to create a to help so many students in are needed? schoolwide kindness model fit for our school. The need this year. Students are Kindness Krew began creating a culture of kindness in able to be creative and our building and at home too. We meet to discuss “Go Be Kind” by flexible! chapters, upcoming projects and ways we can brighten Leon Logothetis the lives of others.

More Who is involved? Implementation Timeline or Tips Grade Level(s) K-6 photos Staff Involvement: All staff Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 of our are invited to help but my Find Student Pick up a few Have students Club & core staff helpers are my Ambassadors copies of the follow along Projects to help your “Go Be Kind” with chapters school social worker & on co-counselor movement. My Journal and & some on NEXT students were schedule your their own. nominated by meeting! Brainstorm Table of Contents SLIDE! staff. projects. ACTIVITY BAGS DURING AT Go Be Kind - Kindness Krew HOME LEARNING

2 of my Kindness Ambassadors delivering to families.

Snapshots of our KGES Kindness Krew Meeting “Compli-mats” for classmates and teachers.

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Table of Contents B-SS 1 Use effective oral and The HCMS theme written communication skills of the year is and listening skills #CougarsTogether. B-SS 2 Create positive and Ambassadors from our school community assisted BINGO provided the supportive relationships with the School Counseling Dept in implementing Kindness opportunity for other students Month. During the first week of the month students student choice in the B-SS 6 Use effective played BINGO and turned their boards in at the end of kind activities they collaboration and cooperation the week with the kind acts they accomplished. would like to do as well skills Students who turned in a BINGO board were entered and contribute to our into a raffle for a gift card. While our students already practice school climate and home kindness, the BINGO board provided new, COVID friendly ideas. relationships in a positive way. Our student ambassadors submitted tasks for the board.

Kindness Bingo Board Create your own Random Name Picker Gift Card

Use the Kindness Advertise and send After the submission Bingo Board or to the student body. deadline, enter eligible Students: Grades 6 -8 create your own Provide a place for students into the Parents/Guardians board using the submissions Random Name Picker Teachers and other members links under (Schoology, email, to choose a winner. of the school community materials. DropBox, etc.) Record and post for student body. Table of Contents Graphics: slidesgo.com Virtual Kindness Bingo Boards

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