English for All: K is for Kindness
Kindness. Who comes to mind? What random acts of kindness have you experienced? These are questions my English for All Students have been talking and writing about as we make our way through the alphabet. Art, breakfast, California, dreams, emotions, friends, God, holidays, internet, and jobs. Kindness has been at the heart of what we’ve been doing: building bridges between cultures and countries. Most of my students are from Brazil, but the group is open to anyone who wants to learn English. Or anyone who wants to help them learn English—with all its peculiarities, dialects, and nuances. Students have learned from engaging guest speakers such as Chris Vallancourt (A Voice to Spend Time With), Zanny Merullo (polyglot and freelance travel journalist), David Gaskin (songwriter and musician). And from kind souls they’ve never met: Matt Kurtz : Kindness ripples on Frank Caprio : Caught being kind Fred Rogers : The king of kindness We've moved o...