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
K-5 Card Deck Activity: Civic character
Tool
30 minutes
By: Principled Innovation™ (PI)
Truth matters: teaching young students to search for the most reasonable answer
Article
30 minutes
By: Alina Reznitskaya and Ian A.G. Wilkinson, Phi Delta Kappan
On educating upstanders
Video
20 minutes
By: Principled Innovation™ (PI)
Logical fallacies
Video
7 minutes
By: Mometrix Academy
K-5 Card Deck Activity: Empathy
Tool
15 minutes
By: Principled Innovation™ (PI)