Be the Change

2023 Kids Top Winner in "Students with Solutions" contest. The actions of the Mapleshade Kindness Club, located in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, focus on empowering students to be leaders in the school community through increased social awareness and responsiveness. The Kindness Club encourages kind, courageous behaviors highlighting the importance of working together to recognize and respond to unkind acts in a respectful and clear manner. We participated in this project to highlight the importance of recognizing the signs of bullying, responding to unkind actions in a clear and respectful way and supporting/engaging peers who have been targeted. The goal is to make kindness contagious and to stop unkind and hurtful actions.