ACSD Strategic Vision

Empathetic

Demonstrates sensitivity to and compassion for the unique needs of others.
Listens to understand others' perspectives and develops an awareness of how actions and behaviors impact the collective.
Contemplates through a variety of lenses, locally, and globally.

Minimizing the “Matthew Effect”For the past 5 years I have been a math coach in the same (mostly) few schools in my district. This has afforded me the opportunity to observe students through the years as they’ve been devel…

Building Empathy in Classrooms and SchoolsTeachers Brianna Crowley and Barry Saide offer advice on developing an empathic mindset in an education culture that doesn’t always value it but desperately needs it.

Viewpoint: October 2019Emotion culture is powerful because it originates in how we are socially and cognitively wired. In schools, emotionally charged meanings are part of school culture. We are predisposed to connect wi…

For Educators: How to Build Empathy and Strengthen Your School Community — Making Caring CommonTo help educators learn how to build empathy among their school communities, the Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education reviewed existing research on empathy and the strategies of evidence-based programs that promote it. Our work shows that there’s more to developin

How Empathy Affects Learning, And How To Cultivate It In Your Students | InformED“The education system forces people to unlearn the empathy they were born with. It’s a system based on always seeming strong, contributing to the economy, and being number one. Being number one is the rule of game, and how we relate to others is fundamentally dismissed.” –Bernard Amadei, Ashoka Fellow and founder of Engineers Without... Read More

Why Intentionally Building Empathy Is More Important Now Than EverEmpathy is eroding, says Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki. The average American in 2009 was 30 percent less empathetic than their counterpart thirty years before. But there are ways to strengthen our empathy despite deep divisions in the world today.

Journal of Social and Emotional Learning Vol. 2 Issue 4Journal of Social and Emotional Learning Vol. 2 Issue 4

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