Before Winter Break, Green Cluster students thought about what it means to stand in someone else’s shoes.
The theme in December for the cluster was empathy, and Co-Head Teacher Zoe Carril wondered what that could look like for students. Over Thanksgiving Break, she created a lesson discussing what empathy means, how students can be empathetic, and how students can be empathetic towards their peers.
“We talked about the saying ‘standing in someone’s shoes,’” Ms. Carril said. “I created a shoe template, and everyone in the Green Cluster answered a series of questions and put the answers with the corresponding numbers on their shoe.”
Some of the questions were: What makes you happy? What makes you sad? What scares you the most?
Ms. Carril’s class then cut the shoes out for everyone, and once complete, they hung the shoes up anonymously around the 7th floor hallway.
