At its most fundamental level, civility is a stubborn persistence to continue to be in community with others, even when we disagree. As ASU professor Liz Lerman, says in this video, kindness can serve as “glue” that helps to hold that community together when negotiations over values—fundamental to Principled Innovation (Practice M1, C2)—threaten to tear it apart.
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Kindness
Shared identity
Tool
15 minutes
By: Greater Good Science Center
How to lead a conversation between people who disagree
Video
9 minutes
By: Eve Pearlman, TED
K-5 Card Deck Activity: Moral character
Tool
60 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Classroom contexts survey
Tool
15 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Altruism
Article
2 minutes
By: Psychology Today