The project has been highlighted by Teaching Tolerance Magazine, the Hallmark Channel, and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation and is the focus of the author’s TEDX Talk and her first book, The Secret Kindness Agents: How Small Acts of Kindness Really Can Change the World. It is all over the United States, three provinces in Canada, in Cameroon, Kenya, Australia, Fiji, and the Philippines. The Secret Kindness Agents project has been implemented in over 500 schools around the world from preschool through university level in public, private, and homeschool settings and in rural, urban, and suburban settings. Secret Kindness Agents: An Educators Guide: How Small Acts of Kindness Really Can Change the World 260. Students were chosen for the group and sworn to secrecy the first day. The group is called Secret Kindness Agents, inspired by the book Secret Kindness Agents by Ferial Pearson. My students became real secret service agents. In our school we have implemented a new kindness intervention to spread kindness, reduce bullying, and re-direct energy spent on disruptive behaviors. As a 3rd grade teacher, one of my very favorite projects that I have ever had my students participate in was the Secret Service Acts Of Kindness PBL. Read an excerpt of this book Add to Wishlist. The Secret Service Acts of Kindness PBL is a super fun and super rewarding kindness project. Administrators and other school professionals will also find research outlining how The Secret Kindness Agents project impacted twenty-three edeucators, their students, and their contexts, as well as research that underscores the need for kindness education in general. Secret Kindness Agents: An Educators Guide: How Small Acts of Kindness Really Can Change the World 260. In this book, educators can find guidance on how different education professionals have implemented The Secret Kindness Agents Project, having tweaked it for their unique contexts, from preschool through university levels. With the current political climate, frequency of school shootings, and rising concern for students’ mental health, schools are desperate for ideas on how to teach students to be kind.
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