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VIDEO: Kindness That Carries Over ─ Compassion for Animals as a Path to SEL

From Compassion to Connection: How to Unlock Social-Emotional Learning  For many educators, supporting students’ social-emotional growth can feel challenging, especially when some students …

Words Matter

The Devil’s Dictionary: How Language Can Be Used for Good or Evil

Language has the power to inspire compassion—or create distance. Students explore how word choice affects the way we think about animals while strengthening their critical-thinking skills.

Plush Ratty
Grades PreK-2

Rethinking the Classroom ‘Pet’: Meet Ratty!

Discover humane alternatives to classroom pets with Ratty, a stuffed classroom companion that helps students build empathy, kindness, and responsibility—without using live animals.

Cute white rat
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English Language ArtsGrades PreK-2

“Sheldon Hears a Squeak”: Encouraging Compassion for All (Reader’s Theater)

“Sheldon Hears a Squeak” helps children explore what it means to see things from the point of view of even the smallest animals, and this can lead to more compassion for all living beings.

English Language ArtsGrades 6-8

Analyze Some of PETA’s Most Powerful Ads With Our President

While studying rhetoric and persuasive writing, students can learn from these eye-catching ad campaigns.

ArtGrades 3-5

5 Awesome Art Projects to Help Animals!

Inspire compassion with 5 creative art projects that help animals. Engage students in meaningful, hands-on activities that build empathy and critical thinking.

TeachKind’s 2026 Teacher of the Year Contest 

Meet TeachKind’s 2026 Teachers of the Year: Learn how two inspiring educators use compassionate teaching, humane education, and vegan values to foster empathy and kindness among students and communities.

Social-emotional learningGrades PreK-2

Share the World: Visual Support Guide (Grades K-2)

This free visual support guide from TeachKind’s Share the World program helps K–2 students build empathy and comprehension using engaging animal images and social-emotional learning tools.