Toolkit library/

The Empathy Handbook

Your Guide to Science-Backed Empathy Lessons Related to Civics and Democracy

This booklet aims to foster empathy through civic engagement and replicable learning experiences. Key values include compassion, inclusivity, truth-seeking, collaboration, open-mindedness, and teamwork. The project aspires to nurture compassion through empathy education, leading to community participation, friendships and student flourishing.

Tool

   60 minutes

   By: Humanities Lab (Fall 2025)

   Educator-prep | K-12 educators


Making connections:

Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.

More on this topic:

Empathy expert teaches how to understand others even when you politically disagree

  Article

  15 minutes

  By: ASU, Elizabeth Segal

Moral teachers, moral students

  Article

  10 minutes

  By: ASCD, Richard Weissbourd

K-5 Card Deck Activities

  Tool

  15 minutes

  By: Principled Innovation® (PI)

Empathy in designing solutions

  Video

  2 minutes

  By: IDEO

Responding to crisis with character

  Video

  11 minutes

  By: Principled Innovation® (PI)

Access our collection of +200 learning materials

PI toolkit library