Day 62: The Power of a Compliment, UPDATE

100 Acts of Kindness

The beginning of something positive: Miss Tucker's class is displaying acts of kindness outside their room.

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a story about a group of high school students from West High School in Iowa City, Iowa who are using social media to send complements to their classmates.  I asked the question of how we could do something like this as a building, and I'm happy to say that some classroom teachers have answered through action.

Heather Tucker, a 1st grade teacher at Hilliard Horizon, emailed our staff about a plan she already had for her classroom called 100 Acts of Kindness:

"If anyone is interested in learning more about the 100 Acts of Kindness project, email me and I will put a copy of it in your mailbox. I will send home a letter about the project on Friday, Jan. 18th, and the project will start Jan. 22nd and end on Valentine's Day. I am encouraging students to participate in Dr. King's dream by doing 100 acts of kindness at home, in the community and at school. This project can be adapted to take place any time of the year..."

Miss Tucker's project features some of the same aspects that the Westhigh Bros project in Iowa has: sharing acts of kindness and displaying it for a community to see.  It really is the perfect answer to the question of how we could do something similar to Westhigh Bros in an elementary school.

Close-up of Miss Tucker's display

More classrooms have already started, and we are looking forward to more joining in on this positive community building project.

Mrs. Remington's class Acts of Kindness display