How to Use the Kindness Recorder in Shubert’s Classroom

The Kindness Recorder is a job in the Conscious Discipline classroom that includes age-appropriate props like a kindness tree, kindness notebook and/or flowerpot to make note of kind and helpful acts throughout the day. The Kindness Recorder ritual helps the class focus on kind and helpful acts, operating on the Conscious Discipline powers of Attention (what you focus on, you get more of), Unity (we are all in this together) and Love (seeing the best in others).

Since young children are just learning to write, you will devise symbolic ways for them to record each other’s kindnesses. Some classrooms put an artificial flower in a pot or vase each time a kind act occurs. Others make a Kindness Tree using the template on the School Family Make-N-Take, available as digital downloads as part of our Premium Resource Toolkit, and put a heart on the tree to record each kind act. Older classrooms (and the Loving Guidance office staff) use a notebook to record kind acts and read them aloud daily or weekly.

More ideas for your Kindness Recorder can be found in the “Classroom Jobs” chapter of the Creating the School Family book, on the School Family Make-N-Take, available as digital downloads as part of our Premium Resource Toolkit, and in the instruction booklet included with the School Family Job Set. “Looking for Kindness” on Kindness Counts supports the Kindness Recorder.