Greenhill School Joins Harvard's Making Caring Common Project

Caring Schools #CommonGood Campaign Led by Harvard’s Making Caring Common Project Launched on Tuesday, March 6th
 
Greenhill School is among the nation’s first schools to join a new national campaign to mobilize middle and high schools to prepare young people to be constructive community members and citizens who create a better world. Led by Harvard’s Making Caring Common project, the Caring Schools #CommonGood campaign aims to motivate schools to take action to help mend our country’s fractures and strengthen democracy.
 
“Greenhill’s mission includes that we are a diverse community of learners and that we strive to instill a respect for others,” said Head of School Scott Griggs. “Our ongoing Equity and Inclusion work, which centers around creating a more inclusive environment for our students, faculty, and families, has established the groundwork for us to participate as leaders in this inspiring program.”
 
The campaign seeks to advance the following specific goals by working with schools nationwide:
 
1. Deepen students’ care for others and their communities;
2. Increase equity and access for all students in the college admissions process; and
3. Reduce excessive achievement pressure in communities where it is detrimental to students.
 
These goals align with and build on Making Caring Common’s successful Turning the Tide initiative that has engaged more than 175 college admissions offices nationwide.
 
“Our country is at a crossroads,” said Dr. Richard Weissbourd, Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Faculty Director of the Making Caring Common project. “We need to mobilize the great strengths of Americans to prepare young people to build strong, inclusive communities and to protect democracy. This work has perhaps never been more important.”
 
To join the campaign, schools commit to taking substantial, meaningful action to advance one or more of the campaign’s goals and to engage in a self-assessment or evaluation process to measure the impact of their action(s). Schools that commit to, implement, and evaluate the impact of their efforts will earn a special designation from Making Caring Common.
 
Greenhill School was one of more than 135 schools that joined the campaign as “early leaders” who helped to inform, shape, and build momentum for the campaign. Greenhill’s commitments involve leveraging the power of student leaders to create a more welcoming, inclusive student environment. Specific efforts include the institutionalization of a student community board, whose responsibility includes providing programming experiences that build community, updating the student handbook to address and define inclusive behavior and language on campus, and refining the School’s peer mentoring program to improve student leadership, our new student transition process, and student-to-student dialogue. This work will be led by Director of Equity and Inclusion Karen Bradberry, Head of Upper School Trevor Worcester, and Director of Academics Jason Yaffe.
 
As part of the launch, Greenhill School today is joining other early leaders on Facebook and Twitter using the Caring Schools #CommonGood hashtag to express support for the campaign, publicly commit to a chosen action(s), and encourage schools nationwide to join the effort. New schools interested in joining the campaign are encouraged to share a photo and use the text “Count us in! We’re joining the Caring Schools #CommonGood campaign.” on Facebook and Twitter on March 6.
 
More information about how schools, parents, and students can join the campaign can be found at commongoodcampaign.makingcaringcommon.org.
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