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What is empathy?

K-12 students in the Bronx describe what empathy is and how they enact it in their daily lives in this video by Ashoka Foundation. Use this 3-minute video to introduce the foundational asset of empathy within the framework of Principled Innovation.

Video

   3 minutes

   By: Ashoka Foundation

   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.

Empathy Altruism

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