The five activities include a building project, a clay 'friendship pot' project, origami projects, kindness postcards, and a deck of kindness mission cards. 5 Engaging Activities: Our lessons on kindness are all taught through engaging play and exploration.Emotional Intelligence: Promotes emotional intelligence, empathy, social skills, motivation, and a sense of community in children.Develops Optimistic Outlooks: Practicing daily kindness help kids develop a positive mindset that helps build strong relationships with friends, family, and themselves.Work alone or assemble a team: Activities and kindness missions can be done independently, as a family, or with a group of friends.Promotes Self-Care: Lays an early foundation of self-care by teaching kids that being kind to themselves is just as important as being kind to others.Learn the Importance of Kindness: Teaches children the importance of being kind to family, friends, themselves, those around them, and the environment.Become a Secret Agent of Joy: Join in our mission to spread joy and kindness all across the world! Inside this box are over 50 top-secret kindness missions to complete! Can you complete them all and join the Joy Hall of Fame?.It’s been implemented in more than 350 schools, from preschool through University, in more than a dozen states as well as two different states in Canada.įor more information on the Secret Kindness Agents, follow their Facebook page or watch Pearson’s TEDx Omaha video.Good Evening, Agent: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to spread joy! The Secret Kindness Agents have been recognized by TEDx Omaha, Teaching Tolerance Magazine, Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, and Hallmark’s Care Enough Initiative. Agent Mama Beast), 'Kindness doesn’t have to be a big production it just comes from your heart.' Roby’s students describe the importance of kindness and compassion: 'Everyone has a nice person inside them.' 'Help others with their problems.' 'When someone falls, you help them back up.'Īccording to Pearson (a.k.a.

'If I can start this program and make a little difference-and if more people do it-we can make a big difference.' Roby heard about the Secret Kindness Agents two years ago and implemented the practice in her classroom to help her students be more mindful of the effects of random acts of kindness on the larger community. Agent Boss Lady) and her students at Omaha’s Skinner Magnet Center. The Hallmark video features Instructional Facilitator Karolyn Roby (a.k.a. The rules are simple: participants must create an Agent name (as to remain anonymous), and they must come up with the acts of kindness themselves. Pearson was looking for a way to prevent future tragedies by creating a culture of everyday kindness.

In 2012, Pearson and students from Ralston High School started the Secret Kindness Agents shortly after the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. Ferial Pearson which encourages students to perform daily random acts of kindness. Over the past week, viewers of the Hallmark Hall of Fame’s presentation of The Christmas Train saw a short video about the Secret Kindness Agents, an program created by Teacher Education Instructor Dr. Hallmark Channel Features Secret Kindness Agents The idea behind Secret Kind- ness Agents, which Pearson details in a TEDx Talk and a book she has written about the program, is both simple and profound: to.

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