Youth Frontiers Kindness Retreats

5th Graders at Peter Hobart, Aquila and Park Spanish Immersion  attended Youth Frontiers' Kindness Retreats during the month of December.
(Susan Lindgren 5th Graders will attend in February)

Since 1987 Youth Frontiers, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization based in Minneapolis, has been delivering programs to build positive school communities that help young people realize the importance of respecting themselves and others. Their vision is to change the way young people treat each other in every hallway, lunch line and classroom of every school in America so that today’s young people make tomorrow’s world better. Last year, Youth Frontiers worked with nearly 100,000 students and educators throughout the country.

On the Kindness Retreat, the Youth Frontiers retreat staff focus on creating a more positive school community by engaging students in a variety of activities that build students’ empathy skills and teach safe ways to help prevent bullying.

For more information on Youth Frontiers and/or the Kindness Retreat click the button below.

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YOUTH FRONTIERS

If you want to catch kindness, keep throwing it out there.  

5th Graders learned:
"3 Steps to be a Hero or an Upstander"


I - C - I 

Interrupt the situation
Compliment the person
Invite the person away


Students can find themselves in a bystander role, witnessing an uncomfortable situation between two students and they are unsure of what to do.  When asked, so many students will say they want to do something but they just don't know what they should do in the moment.  The "I-C-I" is a great, easy and quick method that can help a student know what to do in these types of situations.


Interrupt the situation by talking to the student or friend who is being picked on, teased, made to feel less than what they are.  
"Hey Lisa"
Compliment that friend about anything you can think of.
"Your drawing today in art was so cool"
Then invite that friend away from the situation.
"Do you want to come and jump rope with me?  C'mon, Let's go"

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