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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.

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