Connection Before Correction: Why Kindness Is Your Most Powerful Culture & Climate Tool
Behavior issues, mental health crises, and chronic loneliness share one root cause: disconnection.
1:00 PM - 1:45 PMTue
General Session
Houston Kraft, cofounder of CharacterStrong and author of Deep Kindness, reveals how systematic kindness practices create the psychological safety essential for learning, reducing disciplinary incidents, and supporting mental health of students and adults. Drawing on his work supporting over 12,000 schools through CharacterStrong, you’ll learn practical strategies to build a culture where kindness isn’t just another thing on the plate, it IS the plate.