Free Resources for Schools and Communities:
Building Kindness and Empathy Anti-bullying Lesson Plans
with the companion musical film, Stand UP
&
Ethan Song, Trust Talk for Teens
Non-defensive Communication and Secure Storage Interactive Lessons
with the companion film, Ethan Song
BUILDING KINDNESS AND EMPATHY LESSON PLANS AND STAND UP, THE MUSICAL FILM
For Middle School Students
The Building Kindness and Empathy Enrichment Activity Guide lessons for middle and high school students are intended to help students recognize and learn ways to mitigate mean behavior and build relationships that increase belonging. The interactive, experiential lessons contain material concerning cultural diversity and awareness, digital responsibility, harassment and mean behavior, relationship and friendship skills, and school climate awareness. Some activities involve group role-playing depicting the negative impact of mean behavior and productive ways of responding. The lessons reinforce and extend the learning with transformational exercises and uplifting strategies.
Learning Objectives of the “Building Kindness and Empathy” guides.
Students will:
Increase empathy, social awareness, and positive peer-to-peer interactions
Identify mean behaviors online and in-person
Understand the student's role in creating a positive and inclusive school climate
Learn how to reduce mean behaviors such as harassment, teasing, and name-calling on school grounds, outside of school, and online
Strengthen their relationship skills with classmates and others
Learn effective tools to enhance productive group work
Stand UP, the musical film was created and produced by Jill Nesi who also wrote the songs for the film.
ETHAN SONG EDUCATION GUIDE Trust Talk for Teens
For High School Students
Non-defensive Communication and Secure Gun Storage Interactive Lesson Plans includes:
Low stakes activities to stimulate self-awareness, social awareness, psychological safety, productive group work, and relationship skills.
Building empathy and improving collaboration skills while listening on purpose and speaking on purpose to others.
The teenage brain! Pre-frontal cortex (executive functioning) and amygdala development (impulsivity and reaction) in teens.
How to store guns securely: Ethan's Law Components
Thinking critically about how to respond in difficult situations involving firearms.
ETHAN SONG Film
A film, by Jill Nesi, about secure gun storage. Appropriate for grades 9-12.
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