Christine Donnell School of the Arts – West Ada School District

Idaho State Legislature –  Boise, Id

Last week, I had the privilege in launching Kindness Week for Christine Donnell School of the Arts and attending Legistlative Day with the Idaho PTA Board.

What an amazing sight to see 615 of CDSA students in Yellow “Kindness Begins with ME!” T-shirts! CDSA is a wonderful Arts School with such a caring faculty and PTA. The Kindness Assembly started off with a musical number from their students, our Kindness Assembly (The 6 Scientific Reasons To Perform Kindness), and then Principal Leipf granted 21 Compassion Awards. Hands down, great assembly! A Big Thank you to the CDSA PTA for funding all of their Kindness T-shirts. Teresa Costello, the PTA President, is the individual to thank for getting this all started for their school and to Principal Leipf.

Empowering a Bridge of Light in our kids – Join the Movement

Enjoy the Video!

I highly recommend our Kindness Assembly. If you are a local school in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area, we can plan to do an assembly at your school on our monthly Kindness Days. Please contact us to schedule a date in advance. We have schools out of the area wanting us to come do our Kindness Assembly and are paying our expenses to have us come. This is something that I feel our local schools should take advantage of. We have local AllState Volunteers that help with our local assemblies, with their service hours it donates funding to our next year funds for kindness t-shirts. Thank you, AllState!  Our Kindness Assembly is a 45 minute presentation. You can read more HERE. The Kindnses Assembly consists of a video created to engage your students that associates cartoon characters with the beneifts of kindness. The kids LOVE it!

Thank you, KTVB Channel 7 and 6 News in Boise, for coming to the CDSA Kindness Week Launch and for happily reporting on Boise’s first school to implement our CKM Program.  I appreciate media that help in our efforts to spread the Kindness message and to bring more awareness to Bullying Prevention.

We had a great day last Wednesday, introducing the CKM to our State House of Representatives and State Senators. Represenative Lance Clow said, “This sounds like a great Bullying Prevention Program that I will have to take back to our schools”. Rep. Clow resides in Twin Falls. Overall, great feedback and exposure. I couldn’t be more grateful to our Idaho PTA Board. I also did a CKM presenation to our Idaho PTA and to students and they too loved the program. We hope to see Kindness to continue to spread throughout our state!

We now have a fully designed Parent Flyer to send out to the Parents before Kindness Week begins. We are continually evolving and adding things that we realize we need to help make the program better and more informative.

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO:

New Day Products Staff,  Terry Frederickson, Kathy Wheatly, Mary Kae Ryner, Melanie Mortensen, Jessie Arnold, Sam Nelson, Connie Longhurst, Carmen Stanger, Teresa Costello, Principal Leipf, CDSA PTA, Idaho PTA Board, and our Idaho State Legislature.