KINDNESS CLUB PROPOSAL

Hey Hheroes,

We’ve made its SUPER easy to help spread kindness throughout your school – by starting a KINDNESS CLUB! It’s easy to do and doesn’t require much work.YOU have the opportunity to be the founder of something great. Check out our suggestions below to seeon how you can bring a “Kidkind Club”KINDNESS CLUB to your school.

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  1. Copy this letter and template (link to both)suggested structure for the club into a new email or document.
  2. Change Modify it to fit the needs ofapply to your school.
  3. Bring it to ayour teacher, guidance counselor, or principal.
  4. Get started beingStart spreading the message that it’s cool to be kind, and encourage your peers to be BETTER THAN THAT™, better than hurtful behavior. You can do this in leading by example and having the courage to speak up with this positive message.

Dear ______,

I’mam a Cape Kid working with Wear The the Cape and the kidkind Foundation ( to help spread kindness, courage and respect and heroism. As part of my goal to spread kindnessthis goal, I’ am compelled to start a Kindness Kidkind Club here at [INSERT SCHOOL NAME].______school.

This Kidkindndness Club would be a student- led group, which would consist of students from grades ______open to all grades. One teacher or adult would need to be present at all meetings to help facilitate the sessionsbe the club’s sponsor and provide oversight.

The goal of kindness clubthe Kidkind Club is to help develop a greater understanding of self- awareness among the student body, which will promote kindness, heroism, and good character, through collaboration. Working toward this common objective, will help all to develop positive relationships, set goals, and create a kinder, more character based environment.I hope that the club will help improve relationships at [INSERT SCHOOL NAME], as well as foster a more positive school culture overall.

Below is a list of required materials that will be neededwe will need to run the program. As well, Wear The the Cape and the kidkindFfoundation have also created a sample outline that can be used to help guide club our meetings.

Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you to determine next steps, as my goal is to have this club begin by ______.[INSERT DATE].

In Kindnesskindness,

[INSERT YOUR NAME]

Kindness Club requirementsRequirements:

  • 1 adult to oversee
  • 1 room – classroom, library, all- purpose room, cafeteria, gym available for monthly meetings
  • Designated time – 45 minutes- 1 hour per month for monthly meetingsatlunch, before or after school, or at lunch(see proposed schedule)

Suggested Meeting Objectives and Outline:

1. September: Kindness

-Students will come together to brainstorm ways to be kind and set /Random Acts of Kindness goals to be completed before the next meeting.

-Students will create an “IT’S COOL TO BE KIND” poster to hang in school.

-Spread Kindness Takea Away: Students will commit to choosing onecarrying out Random Acts of Kindness, in pursuit of the goals they created to complete before next meeting.

2. October: Respect

-Students will brainstorm ways to show respect to themselves and to others.

-Students will create a RESPECT anagram.

-Spread Kindness Takea Away: Students will commit to including someone new in an activity before the next meetingabstaining from criticism of their classmates and teachers.

3. November: Making Good Choices

-Students will create lists of everyday decisions that they face and write down good choices/bad choices and the consequences offor each.

-Students will create a “Make a Good ChoiceThe Choices You Make Today Matter” banner for hallwayposter to hang in school.

-Spread Kindness Take AwayTakeaway: Students will commit to making selecting good choices each day,from the lists they made during the meetingeach day and encourage others to do the same.

4. December: Social Awareness: Compassion/Empathy:

- Students will reflect on theonPlato Philo of Alexandria’s quote: Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Students will discuss what it means to have empathy and show others compassion and, if comfortable, willthe meaning of having compassion/empathy toward others

-Students will share a time when someone did/did not have compassion towards them.

-Spread Kindness Takea Away: Students will commit to creatinge a canned food drive or coat drive to and will collect items for a local food pantry or shelter.

5. January: Heroism

-Students will learn the meaning of the word UPSTANDER,:an individual who sees wrong and acts.someone who stands up for another what is right

-Students will brainstorm ways to be an Uupstander in and out of schoolwhen they see someone being bullied.

-Students will create a “Be an Upstander, Not a Bystander” poster(s) to hang in school.

-Spread Kindness Take AwayTakeaway: Students will commit to helping someone in need by being an Upstander by the next meetingbeing an upstander at least once before the next meeting, if and when they see someone being bullied.

6. February: Conflict Resolution/Ways tobBeing a Good Friend

-Students will share personal experiences on how they have been a good friend to other an instance when they’ve observed someone being a good friend.

-Students will brainstorm ways to be a good friend

-Students will be introduced to the 3 H strategy: bBefore reacting to confrontation, students should ask themselves, “Does this person need a haltHalt, a Hhand, or a Hhug?”

-Students use I statements to communicate how they are feeling to others

-Students role play conflict resolution scenarios

-Spread Kindness Take AwayTakeaway: Students commit to using the 3H strategy when, as needed the time arises.

7. March: Being a Leader

- Students will list the qualities of a good leader and will share leaders whom they admire and why.

-Students list leaders whom they admire and state why

-Each Sstudents will create a leadership certificate to gift to a person they feel has high leadership qualitiesgive to someone who they know personally that exemplifies the qualities of a good leader.

-Spread Kindness Takea Away: Students will commit to attaining developing one leadership quality that they do not yet possess.

8. April: Helping others Others (Nnational Vvolunteer Wweek is this month)

-Students will discuss the importance and value of helping others socially, physically, and emotionallyin need and will share their favorite volunteer opportunity.

-Students will create a canned food drive for local soup kitchen during national volunteer weekvolunteer with a local non-profit during National Volunteer Week.

-Spread Kindness Takea Away: Students will commit to offerto give up their recessor other designatedhalf an hour of their time to help a teacher at school before the next meeting.

9. May: Self Awareness: Self- Control

-Students determine areas needed for self- control

-Students will discuss the importance of having self -control and the ramifications for not displaying self self-control.

-Students will discuss gossiping and anger management – and relate it to having no self -controlwhat self-control looks like when tempted by gossip or anger.

-Students brainstorm ways to develop self- control in different scenarios, specifically anger management and spreading gossip

-Students will role play how to have self control with when others are gossiping and anger managementwhen a situation causes anger.

-Spread Kindness Takea Away: Students will commit to practicing good self- control in the areas of gossip and anger management and social management, including gossiping .

10. June: Self Management: Self -– ReflectionSelf-Awareness and Creating Creation of Goals

-Students will review the areas of discussion over the past year, while noting growth and developmentpositive changes within the school.

-Students will independently create a list of areas in which they have seenattained personal growth over the past school year on an index card.

-Students will then independently create draft a list of goals in which they want to succeed and growtoward which they want to strive over the summer months, on the reverse side of the index card.

-Students share, if they wish

-Spread Kindness Take AwayTakeaway: Students will commit to making progress toward attaining their personal goals throughout the summer months.