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Emotional Literacy Skills: Learn By Doing 4th & 5th Grades
posted Wednesday, 2 January 2008
A 4-month-old baby is helping Seattle fourth- and fifth-graders learn empathy and other so-called emotional literacy skills. The Roots of Empathy program, which originated in Canada and is now employed in several countries and launching in the U.S. this year in the Seattle area, invites local parents to bring their newborns into classrooms to help school children learn bonding and empathy. The program was shown to have reduced aggressive behaviors such as bullying in 88% of children tracked in a 2001 University of British Columbia study. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (12/29) Photo Credit: Andy Rogers / P-I
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