The students will gather to sing the song together.
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Students have participated in activities including second-graders writing “thank you” cards for the city’s police and fire departments, first-graders reading “Words in Your Heart,” which emphasizes the power of words and first- to fifth-grade students playing “Random Acts of Kindness Bingo.”
“Kindness is contagious,” Kenworthy said. “It gets students at a young age looking to pay kindness forward … and how to treat one another just with kindness and respect.”
The song students will sing this morning was written by Compass music teacher Erin Williams for LoveWorks, and all 800 students will wear red LoveWorks T-shirts.
Compass Elementary principal Kim Wotring said she and her staff were “100 percent on board” when LoveWorks presented the idea. Teachers and staff continually are teaching students to treat each other with kindness.
“They’ve got the power to make a change in the world, and in our small little world of Compass Elementary,” she said.
Eventually, LoveWorks plans to do special programming at each elementary school each year. It elected to start with Compass Elementary.
“We don’t want to have this negativity in our community,” Kenworthys aid.
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