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School Success Tips

Why Kindness Week Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead

Kindness Week in schools sounds good and looks good but it's not effective in creating a positive school environment where students know how to speak and act with kindness. If you want a kind school environment, do this instead.

Inside: Kindness week doesn’t work to ensure kindness in our schools. Here’s what to do instead if you want to build a positive and kind classroom and school environment.  My daughter’s school had all the kindness posters hanging in the hallways and the cafeteria.  The gym had gigantic murals touting character principles of respect and […]

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Use this Interactive Bulletin Board to Encourage Kindness

Use this interactive bulletin board to increase kindness in your classroom and encourage more kids to speak and act with kindness as a habit.

Inside: Use this interactive bulletin board to encourage more kindness in your classroom or school and make kindness more of a daily habit.  When I taught at my second school, we got a “must place” principal. His last school didn’t want him anymore and he was forced to leave but he was protected, couldn’t be […]

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How to Succeed with a Summer Slide Prevention

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Inside: Summer learning loss, otherwise known as Summer Slide is detrimental to our kids’ learning progress. But it can succeed with a summer slide prevention by doing simple activities throughout the summer. And the best news is: even if you do only 1 activity to prevent Summer Slide, it will help your child. The easiest […]

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Early Reader Books About Kindness Growing

These early readers sets on kindness bundle is designed to help 1st-4th graders understand sel curriculum and character education concepts like volunteering, helping, and speaking with kindness.

Inside: Use these Early Reader books about kindness in this Growing Bundle to help you teach sel curriculum to your students. Our students can read random non-fiction expository text OR they can read about character education. This Early Reader Books all about Kindness Growing Bundle Set all about kindness uses more advanced vocabulary and is […]

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30 Fun Games Sneak In Learning

These games for kids are perfect birthday gifts and christmas gifts for kids because they are games that sneak in learning. They're fun but educational so they're perfect boredom busters to keep kids entertained. #gamesthatsneakinlearning #educationgames #educationalgames #bestgiftsforkids #chrsitmasgifts #holidaygiftsforkids

Inside: To create indoor boredom buster ideas for your kids, use these games that sneak in learning and fun for both younger kids and older kids. My kids are often bored the second screens are turned off. We are lucky to have a house of toys, crafts, games and puzzles. We’re also lucky to have […]

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Welcome to Coffee and Carpool: Raising Kind Kids.

I’m Nicole and am a recovering elementary school teacher, a mom to three super busy kids, and the founder of The Raising Kind Kids Club where we share strategies and resources with busy parents and educators to intentionally focus on kindness, family connection, and bullying prevention.

We have hundreds of paid and free done-for-you resources to make teaching kindness and social emotional learning to kids easy, fun, and hands-on. Email me at nicole@coffeeandcarpool.com if there’s a resource that you wish you had.

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