Take a look inside The Mission Hill School, a Boston Public Pilot School and leading Ashoka Changemaker School, where education focuses on the whole child rather than the test.
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Ashoka Fellow Jill Vialet recently spoke in Albuquerque where Playworks now serves over 4,000 children. "Programs like Playworks," Jill says, "have data that show that when you have academic rigor that’s support by programs that really value and teach the school of empathy, and teamwork, and leadership, learning there is much richer. The extra-double bonus about that is not only do you solve the education crisis, you’re raising a generation with the vision and the collective will to make all the other changes that we need."
Bill Drayton explains why empathy matters in this 2-minute interview clip from Social Edge.
Ashoka Fellow Kiran Bir Sethi shows how kids are naturals in applying empathy to change the world.
A ten-minute introduction to Ashoka Fellow Mary Gordon's award-winning program.
Ashoka Fellow Jill Vialet shares the power of play in this TEDx talk.
An enlightening animation of Jeremy Rifkin's book on the evolution and future of empathy.
A group of 35 summer interns tell the story of Ashoka in their own words
Here's one of twenty videos from our Empathy 101 Video Series -- where leading innovators and educators explain (in two minutes or less) how to cultivate empathy. Check out the whole series here!
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