Kids Explore Compassion Through Creativity
“Though you can use a lot of words to describe compassion, by putting it into art, art adds value to words and art goes deeper than words,” says James Heiks, the district’s fine arts coordinator. Since the fall, 10,436 students from Appleton, Wisconsin, taking part in The Appleton Compassion Project have met to discuss what compassion is and what it means to them. “It really causes students to dig deep and discover for the first time how compassion is a part of their lives,” says Heiks....