For years, counselor Barbara Gruener has been inspiring students and teachers in her Friendswood, Texas elementary school with her teachings about kindness and character. In 2011, she began blogging at The Corner on Character as a way to share her unique brand of positivity and kindness with the world. With 1,000 blog posts, hundreds of…
Building Kindness
How would you rate your school’s kindness culture? A question that I love to pose in my workshops and guidance lessons goes something like this: If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you? Eric Hoffer said, “We are made kind by being kind.” As such, we must teach our…
Creating a Character Collage
by Barbara Gruener, Monthly Columnist It’ll be twelve years next month since my daughter and I sat together, supplies in hand, looking for just the right combination of pictures and words to create our Character Collage. A college sophomore now, she was in second grade then, but I can still see us sitting on the…