How to Foster Empathy in Your Classroom - Strong Ideas

- Building connections through a living library... have staff and students share their stories
- Sharing circle- have two buckets (1 empty, 1 full); if something positive happens to you, you fill the bucket; bucket dippers are people who try to empty your bucket
- Storytelling--> guest speakers, reading stories, telling your story i.e. have a newcomer come in to tell their story
- Have students create their own stories (something they have struggled with); it acknowledges their struggles... move toward some sort of action
- Volunteer exchange programs- initiated by students
- Students having pen pals in developing countries
- Skyping with another class; sharing stories, talk about classroom and family