Second Step E-Newsletter
January 2012
Activating Empathy with Ashoka’s Changemakers
We’re very excited to share some information about a collaborative competition we know you’ll be interested in: Activating Empathy: Transforming Schools to Teach What Matters. Ashoka’s Changemakers, the organization behind the competition, is challenging K–5 teachers, principals, parents, students, and other innovators to share ideas—whether through a project, a program, or a new learning experience—for advancing empathy in education. To us, that sounds like schools with great Second Step and Steps to Respect implementations, which is why we knew you’d want to hear about it.
Collaborative Competition: Activating Empathy
Starting on January 19, entrants from around the world are invited to share, collaborate, and show their passion for creating a world guided by empathy and collaboration, one led by empowered young people who succeed in the classroom and in every walk of life. The deadline for ideas is March 29, and you can enter the competition on Changemakers' Web site.
About Ashoka
Founded in 1980, Ashoka is an international working community of more than 2,500 leading social entrepreneurs. It champions the most important new social change ideas and supports the entrepreneurs behind them by helping them get started, grow, succeed, and collaborate.
About Changemakers
Ashoka’s Changemakers program is a global online community that supports everyone’s ability to be a changemaker by inspiring, mentoring, and collaborating with other members of the community at every level of changemaking. Changemakers hosts collaborative online competitions to identify and connect the best social innovators and implementers. Participants compete to discover the most promising solutions and then collaborate to refine, enrich, and implement them.
Think you’d like to begin collaborating on this global initiative to ensure that children master empathy? Learn more about the Activating Empathy competition!
