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Educators, learners, and researchers in rooms around the world. Their words, not ours.
Tony, with the good dog.
Better World Ed (now reweave) is breaking new ground in teaching students essential 21st century skills while also developing their capacity for empathy, all while practicing literacy and numeracy in an important way.
Tony Wagner
Senior Research Fellow, Learning Policy Institute. Former Innovation Education Fellow at the Harvard Innovation Lab.
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The beauty of this is that it's not an additional thing to teach. It is how we build the capacity of our learners to engage with and impact the world through existing curriculum.
Sue Totaro
District Math Specialist
Read her full story →One of my more challenging learners is now one of the kindest people I know. He has shared with me how good he feels after doing the lessons.
Julian Cortes
5th Grade Educator
If I'm teaching my 3rd graders area and perimeter, the concept can seem abstract. I tie in a wordless film about farmers tending crops, and suddenly it is real.
Jaime Chapple
3rd Grade Educator
In 6th grade we read about many cultures. Learners come with preconceived notions, and discussion alone cannot shift them. The wordless films show people in their everyday lives. That changes everything.
Kelly Abens
6th Grade Educator
We just have conversations that I can't prepare for. You can't script it. It's not in a curriculum. There's no way I would get to this on my own.
Educator
5th Grade, USA
It's completely interconnected. It's not: I'm going to teach my character-building moment here and then my lesson plan for decimals over here. It's the vehicle through which you can teach all of those things at once.
Educator
Math & Character Education, USA
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From the learners
I like how the films teach us all these big subjects at once. Writing, math, reading, kindness. And we get to explore the whole world without leaving our room.
5th grade, Washington, USA
Even if you don't speak English, or you don't speak Japanese — empathy is a universal language. The videos let you understand without having to hear. You can just watch and see what happens.
Middle school, USA
I feel like I'm a better person than I was before. It shows what you can do to change the world. Just doing something small can help. Because you pass your empathy on to other people, who will then probably pass it on too.
Middle school, USA
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