Changemakers Curriculum Launches
After six years of work to meet educators’ demand for social emotional learning best practices, our staff finalized the Changemakers Curriculum this summer. Check out the details here!
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Articles
Why Hope Matters for Children and Families in Poverty
Our Changing the Odds speaker, Valerie Maholmes, shares a guest blog post about why hope matters. Keep reading...
Kids Talk: Kindness
Who better to explain kindness than Momentous School student Camila? Couldn't have explained it better ourselves.
Caught Being Kind
How often do we call attention to kindness? Try this simple strategy!
"Kindness Comes Backs To You"
"Kindness comes backs to you." Let Leo and Kyndall teach you about the importance of kindness in this adorable video.
The Three Gates
A simple tool to encourage kind words is to see if the words would get past the three gates.
How Full is your Bucket?
One of our favorite books about kindness and treating other people with respect!
Magic Kindness Carrier
It's important to teach kindness to young children, but finding ways to be kind can be tricky. Try this: Make a magic wand.... Read more.
Why Should We Teach Kids About Kindness?
The answer to this question seems pretty obvious. But read on to see why kindness is so important to teach kids.
Videos
2nd Grade Service Project
For our 2nd grade service project, the students worked together in organizing the different grades and faculty to bring in hats and gloves to the Joppa community here in South Dallas.
Angelo: Empathy
Momentous School student Angelo tells us about a time when he had empathy for a friend.
Kids Talk: Kindness
Momentous School student Camila wants to teach you a lesson about kindness.
Classroom Strategy: Appreciations
Momentous School teacher Jennifer Hartmann shares a simple classroom strategy that helps all students develop a sense of belonging in the classroom.