Ann & Nate Levine Academy Prepares Upstanding Seventh Graders
DALLAS, March 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ann & Nate Levine Academy announced a call to action to promote tolerance across the country. By challenging every school in America to house a Cool 2 Care (C2C) Kindness Corner, Levine Academy teaches students to be UPSTANDERS, people who combat bullying, suicides, and shootings through education and acts of kindness. Levine Academy partnered with Steve and Jackie Waldman to educate their seventh graders on contemporary social issues in order to enact change for a brighter future in America.
A Cool 2 Care Kindness Corner is a small library filled with historical books, providing information on genocides, civil rights movements, and refugees. Steve and Jackie Waldman donated over twenty books, such as The Book Thief, The Grand Mosque, and The Invisible Boy, to Levine Academy's Cool 2 Care Kindness Corner. The corner also includes kind and inspirational messages for the students to read and a space to write their own messages. The Cool 2 Care Kindness Corner's objective is to promote kindness and compassion among students through education. By enlightening the youth on historical tragedies, Levine Academy's aim is that history will not repeat itself.
"The challenge is hopefully every school in the nation will have a Cool 2 Care Kindness Corner, so that we are all doing our best to teach students how to promote kindness and to be Upstanders, not BYSTANDERS," commented Jackie Waldman, author of The Courage to Give.
As "Real Mensches of DFW" is the theme for Levine Academy's 2019 Gala, Steve and Jackie Waldman volunteered a visit to the Dallas Holocaust Museum for the seventh grade's mitzvah project on February 3, 2019. At the museum, the seventh graders learned the importance of speaking out, standing up, and remembering the Holocaust and heard from Max Glauben, a Holocaust survivor. Afterwards, Steve and Jackie Waldman spoke to the students about spreading kindness throughout the school's community. The Waldmans then gave each student a membership to the Dallas Holocaust Museum, entrusting these seventh graders to remember to not be bystanders and to take action against social injustice.
"We want every school to have a Cool 2 Care Kindness Corner," beamed Sara Lipszyc and Brenna Norton, seventh graders at Levine Academy, "so people will realize that it's cool to read and cool to care!"
For more information on Ann & Nate Levine Academy, visit https://www.levineacademy.org/.
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