Empathy In Education

From Caregiver to Changemaker: How Purpose and Community Create Lasting Impact

Resilience isn’t just about enduring challenges — it’s about leading with compassion, patience, and faith, even when the path feels uncertain. It’s a quality embodied by every caregiver, whose daily acts of care and commitment reflect the essence of true leadership — helping others grow stronger through empathy, service, and understanding. In this episode…

How Human-Centered Design Led to a Startup Accelerator for Education: A Conversation with Transcend Network’s Co-founder Michael Narea

The convergence of human-centered design and education innovation is reshaping how edtech ventures emerge and scale. As AI enables hyper-efficiency and bootstrapped entrepreneurship becomes more viable, the real differentiator is empathy—founders who listen deeply to users before building solutions. A McKinsey study of 300 public companies found that design-led organizations significantly outperformed their peers, with…

Just Thinking… About the Role of Marketing, Advocacy & Storytelling in Holistic Education

Teachers embrace whole-child development in theory, but lack the practical tools and support systems needed to make it work in classrooms

Just Thinking…About Focusing on Kindness in Education

Author and former educator Jeff Kubiak joins Just Thinking to discuss how kindness, empathy and connection can shape a more student-centered classroom

Where Adversity Stands as a Catalyst that Fuels Leadership in Education

Leaders who have faced significant hardship are often more empathetic, forming stronger connections with their teams and students

National Bullying Prevention Month: Hey Dude, Nice Shoes

A school safety expert reveals how kindness initiatives can transform bullying prevention from problem-spotting to solution-building