Growing Kindly Through Change Walton-Verona Elementary School sits among the horse farms of northern Kentucky, about 25 minutes from downtown Cincinnati. The school serves about 540 kindergartners through third graders in a small, rural district that recently opened a new intermediate school, shifting the elementary from K–4 to K–3. Counselor…

Kindness That Carries Through the Hallways and Beyond Van Wyck Elementary School in Lancaster, South Carolina, serves more than 875 students, including a growing number of multilingual families – some from Ukraine and Russia – who have arrived in recent years. Counselor Whitney Carter helps lead the school’s kindness work,…

Kindness as Something Students Do At Taylor County Middle School in Campbellsville, Kentucky, adults will tell you the goal is simple: kindness is an action. The school serves around 610 students in grades six through eight, and the team doing this work — school counselors Kristy Parkey and Amy Reynolds,…

At Sangre Ridge Elementary in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the first line of the school creed names a daily expectation: be kinder than necessary. It’s a high bar for a school of 500 students, but it’s one that Sangre Ridge is living up to. In 2025, the school earned the #1 spot…

One School, One Community At Saint Mark’s Episcopal School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, kindness moves through the whole campus as a shared way of life. The school serves 615 students from Pre-K through eighth grade, and for five years it has been using Teach Kindness resources to help strengthen relationships…