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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:

• Teaching With Empathy: Connect with students, model pro-social skills, and build trusting relationships through storytelling, symbolic teaching, and other strategies.
• 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.
• Living Empathy: Build a school culture of empathy through and the ten intentions of the school of belonging.
• Courageous Conversations: Focus on dilemmas, the power of choice, and other empathic skills in this mini-empathy curriculum that combines 13 lessons with eight thought-provoking songs including Howard Gray.

Grades K–12.

Free Resources: Study Guide, Empathy Exercises and Audio Clips

Related Links: Interview with Education World, "Ways to Teach Empathy Skills," Interview with NPR, "Educators Fight Violence With Empathy"