Empathy: the most important skill
6th grade students respond to Mountain Elementary School’s Team Time
On June 26, Boomtown presented an article (found here: A Desperate Need for Empathy) about the social emotional curriculum three Mountain Elementary school teachers introduced to their sixth grade homerooms during the 2023-2024 school year. This week we are offering the perspective of several sixth grade students, including anonymous feedback from a collective survey given at the end of the school year, as well as comments written by several students from the sixth grade journalism club.*
*Students’ parents provided written permission to use their comments and names in this article.
Team Time, based on the Harvard University curriculum “Making Caring Common” was introduced to the 6th grade students of Mountain Elementary during the 2023-2024 school year. This program consisted of twice weekly meetings in students’ homerooms and larger whole-grade gatherings where students were introduced to relevant topics meant to develop emotional awareness and empathy in school-aged children.
Since th…
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