1. Read, review and engage with the lesson
2. Consider doing a personal connection challenge yourself
3. Send communication to parents and administrators
4. Prepare materials
5. Lead the lesson with your students
6. Reflect on lesson and follow up with students as needed
2. Consider doing a personal connection challenge yourself
3. Send communication to parents and administrators
4. Prepare materials
5. Lead the lesson with your students
6. Reflect on lesson and follow up with students as needed
Classroom Slides
connection challenge
get ready to connect:
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LESSON PLAN & Discussion Guide
Students choose acts of kindness to perform in order to connect with their community.
community Connections
Connection Notes
PREP checklist:
- Teaching Slides
- Empathy Lesson Video: Izzy's Story
- Connection Notes, print one for each student
- Connection Challenge, Kindness Challenge: print one for each student
- Monthly Assessment
08. empathy lesson
Izzy Boring
Hello! I’m Izzy! I am a recent high school graduate and basketball player. A hard piece of my story has been losing my boyfriend to suicide during my senior year, but through that I have learned to connect with people supporting me. I have learned that it is okay to not be okay and it is okay to be vulnerable!
story Themes:
Loneliness, suicide, mental health, religion, faith, cancer, incarceration, grief
