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Kind World
This summer I listened to a lot of podcasts. Hearing one program led to another, and somehow I found an utterly amazing and inspiring series called Kind World. Each piece is only four to six minutes long, but I have found each more powerful than the last. The lead-in each week describes the podcast as illustrating that “Small acts of kindness may seem ordinary but are actually extraordinary and amazing to others. A smile, a helping hand, or simply listening can be as important as breakthrough therapies.”
When the faculty gathered for its first meeting of the year, I shared four episodes of Kind World. We discussed what made them powerful and how we could apply in our classrooms the lessons they illustrated. We then had small group discussions of Unselfie, the faculty summer read that promotes the importance of empathy and proposes methods of teaching it.
At our opening assembly on September 5, I shared with our students the Kind World episode “Strangers at the Airport.” It told the story of a young woman whose plane journey got interrupted in severe thunderstorms and how a family intervened to make her feel safe, cared for, and not alone during an overnight delay at a connecting airport. We then discussed what the family did to display kindness, how they initiated that kindness, and how their compassion made the young woman feel. Several children shared that it didn’t take big actions to show kindness. You may want to ask your child about it.
While empathy can be a somewhat abstract concept for our small children, all understand the idea of kindness. I challenged our teachers to share some episodes of Kind World with their classes. I also asked them to come up with age-a
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Conversation & Homecoming - Saturday, February 24, 2024
Read MoreThe Country School, Talbot County Free Library, and the Avalon Foundation, sponsors, join with fourteen other community organizations to present Conversation & Homecoming with Carole Boston Weatherford and her son, Jeffery Boston Weatherford, a program free and open to all. -
TCS Upper School presents 'Matilda, Jr.!'
Read MoreThe Country School will present Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical JR. on March 1st & 2nd at 7pm and on March 3rd at 2pm in the school’s auditorium. Tickets are $10. Click here to purchase tickets. -
Renowned Scholar Celeste-Marie Bernier visits The Country School
This week, The Country School was honored to welcome a distinguished visitor to its campus, Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier, Chair of United States and Atlantic Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.Read More -
Secondary School Night 2023
On Tuesday, October 3, over 30 secondary school representatives visited our Secondary School Night, an event open to students in grades 5-8.Read More -
Country School Summer Camps 2023
Our summer camps aren't just open to Country School students. Check out the many great offerings this summer at this link.
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