Steps to Participating in The Kindness Games:
1) Choose one educator to register your school as a Kindness Games participant. REGISTER BELOW.
2) After registering, you will receive a link to share with your students and staff. This link will take you directly to the page to post acts of kindness.
3) Throughout The Kindness Games, encourage students and staff to use the link to log any acts of kindness they see or do - including examples found in the news or media - from FEBRUARY 17 - APRIL 18.
4) At the end of The Kindness Games, the number of acts of kindness from each school will be tallied and the top three winners will be recognized in the following three categories: K-5, 6-8, 9-12.
Ohio Education Association is a proud supporter of
Values-in-Action and its Kindland school programming.
For any questions about The Kindness Games, please contact Ben Krutko at benk@viafdn.org.
What is Kindland?​
Presented by Cleveland, Ohio-based, non-profit organization, Values-in-Action Foundation, the Kindland movement is bringing together communities, businesses, organizations, and schools by recognizing and sharing the acts of kindness around us in an effort to inspire a ground swell of positivity and goodness. Kindland relies on the power of the people to do, recognize, report, and share the acts of kindness happening everyday.
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The goal is to create a communities that can sustain a unified sense of kindness, compassion, empathy and understanding. Learn more about all of our free Kindland lessons and programming HERE.
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About Values-in-Action Foundation​
Started in 1994 as Project Love, Values-in-Action has been providing social-emotional and character education programs to schools in Northeast Ohio for 31 years. Now with programming in schools in all 50 states, its mission is to empower students and adults to build communities of kindness, caring and respect through programs that teach, promote, and provide skills and tools to enable individuals to make positive, values-based decisions every day.