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Many people who choose careers in medicine or at nonprofits are intrinsically motivated to serve others. And yet most of us haven’t received any training to hone our ability to empathize; we just do our best. If we expect every healthcare professional to empathize...

University of California, Irvine anthropology professor Tom Boellstorff studied LaScala and hundreds of other players with disabilities in his research into how they use Second Life for social interaction that often escapes them in non-virtual settings. Boellstorff...

It's back to school season!  From all of us at Changing Perspectives, we wish you a positive, successful and inclusive start to the new school year. We're thrilled to be working with past partner schools and also welcome new schools. As we continue to expand our...

Children with autism could see meaningful social skills gains from working with an interactive robot at home, researchers say. A study published this month in the journal Science Robotics found that kids on the spectrum who spent just 30 minutes a day with the...

If you know anything about New Orleans public schools, you probably know this: Hurricane Katrina wiped them out and almost all the schools became privately run charters. Many of those schools subscribed to the no excuses discipline model — the idea that if you crack...

As we approach the 2018 - 2019 school year, we're excited to share some exciting updates about what Changing Perspectives has to offer your school. Our Pre-K units feature 50 new teacher resources including original lessons and picture book discussion questions. Our...

University of Georgia education professor Peter Smagorinsky wrote a piece last year about a promising young teacher who chose to leave education. She has now returned to the classroom but in a different Georgia district. In this column, Smagorinsky explains how her...

Often discussed as something that we might do (or perhaps should do) to be a good person, feeling empathetic helps us make connections with others and understand them better. It’s different from having sympathy for someone, which means to look at their suffering from...

The constant need to label and pathologize everything Autistics do is part of what makes people see them and treat them as less than human, and this is a dangerous precedent to set. I remember when my son was first diagnosed, and a old friend came to visit. I had...

Bradford Elementary School in Vermont has been a Changing Perspectives partner for 3 years. In fact, this school was one of Changing Perspectives' first pilot schools. The leadership at Bradford Elementary School saw a need for this curriculum, explains Adam Norwood,...

We’re on a mission to cultivate empathy, but we need your help to keep growing! Recognizing and embracing differences is at the root of the Changing Perspectives mission to plant seeds of change and grow empathy. And this program year, our third, we found ourselves...