FOR SCHOOLS
Join us in the kindness movement
sweeping through schools across the nation!
Welcome to Kindland
Dear Educators and School Staff,
Thank you for your interest in the kindness movement that is bringing together organizations, businesses, schools, and communities. Your efforts to link your school, staff, students, and families to this initiative through increased kindness will make a difference as we change our community, and its overall mindset, one act of kindness at a time.
We understand that most everyone is being pushed to their max - time, budgets, staffing, etc. That is why it is important for schools to know that being a part of Kindland can be as minimal or as extensive as you'd like! See below for all of your school options.
These days it is hard to find something to rally behind that EVERYONE can agree on. We believe that everyone knows that our world needs more KINDNESS, everyone is capable of doing it, and everyone appreciates it. Thank you for your kindness in bringing Kindland to the attention of your students, staff, families, and friends. TOGETHER, WE ARE KINDLAND.
Sincerely,
Stuart Muszysnki
President & CEO
Values-in-Action Foundation
stuartm@viafdn.org
216-650-0463
GET STARTED
1) Sign Up
Fill out the sign up form here to get started, and we'll be in touch with all Kindland information and news. We'll also send you a fun Kindland starter kit!​
2) Select a Kindland Leader
If it is not you, select one person or a small group who will lead your school's Kindland efforts. Having a student ambassador is fun! Maybe this would be great for your student council? Find that passionate person or advisor that will actively engage with all things Kindland!
3) Plan ahead for the BIG stuff NOW!
We offer several exciting Kindland activities throughout the school year - pick one or do them all! These all can be done from the comfort of your own school, and they are all done with the intention of starting a kindness conversation and keeping it going by promoting activities that ask your staff and students to do acts of kindness as a part of their daily activities:​
Be Kind Stick Together (K-8) - Available all year
An assembly or classroom activity that encourages students to be kind and stick together.
Presented by your own staff or high school age students.
Kindland Video Challenge - Sept-Dec 2024
Students of all ages can use their creativity to put their visions of kindness into a video. Our favorite submissions have a chance to win amazing prizes and be included in our nationwide Kickoff for Kindness event on February 6, 2025 - see below
Kickoff for Kindness - February 6, 2025
Sponsored by the NFL Foundation, this special video presentation is meant to be viewed by schools across the nation all on the same day (February 6th) during Super Bowl week. It is a 45-minute video that can be viewed at a time convenient for you, and it will highlight kindness stories and messages that will inspire your students to lead with kindness.
The Kindness Games - March-May 2025
Encourage your staff and students to log the most acts of kindness on the Just Be Kind App from March 1st - May 1st. Not only will posting acts of kindness inspire your students and their peers to do more and more acts of kindness, you'll also be competing to win amazing monetary prizes for your school!
Kindland Creative Writing Challenge - Accepting submissions all year; Deadline: May 1, 2025
For students all of ages, this is an opportunity to take kindness into your classrooms. Encourage your teachers (especially your creative writing or ELA instructors) to challenge students to write what kindness means to them in an essay, poem, song lyrics, etc. Please keep entries to 1,000 words or less.
4) Kindland Lessons
In addition to the activities listed above, Kindland offers a full curriculum of kindness lessons that can be incorporated into your daily classroom activities. Upon signing up above, you will receive an introductory email from Ben Krutko that will include the available lesson plans. You can preview the lessons HERE.
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​5) Kindland Messaging
You can do things as simple as posting posters in your hallways, sharing Kindland in your school newsletters, and showing your support on social media by sharing the kind things your staff and students are doing using #Kindland and tagging @BeKindland.
Questions? Contact Ben Krutko
Ben will be happy to help answer any questions.
Contact Ben at benk@viafdn.org or 440-879-8095
What is Kindland?
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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.
The goal is to create a community that can sustain a unified sense of kindness, compassion, empathy and understanding. These values are the foundation we need for our community to have the strength to find solutions to our most prominent issues including navigating through crises, poverty, social justice, racism, and general divisiveness.​
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About Values-in-Action Foundation
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Started in 1994 as Project Love, Values-in-Action has been providing social-emotional and character education programs to schools in Northeast Ohio for 30 years. Now with school programming 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.
Questions? Contact Ben Krutko
Ben will be happy to help answer any questions.
Contact Ben at benk@viafdn.org or 440-879-8095
Kindland Logos
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