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Cultivating Compassion �One Character at a Time���Elizabeth Pappas�UCSD Education Studies�epappas@ucsd.edu

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Elizabeth Pappas (she/her)

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Author

Consultant

Professor, Supervisor Education Studies, UCSD

Bilingual Language Authorization

San Diego Unified Office of Language Acquisition

Quality Teaching for English Learners: WestEd

National Equity Project Apprenticeship

CA Reading and Literature Project Presenter

Spanish Language Arts Specialist

New Arrival Teacher

Biliteracy Teacher, National City

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Elizabeth Pappas

epappas@ucsd.edu

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Our Learning Intentions

  • Commit to cultivating compassionate classroom cultures and confront marginalization.
  • Use characters from diverse texts as levers to establish liberatory and equitable spaces.
  • Experience and apply the compassion protocol to further our concrete coalition work.
  • Harness your own take aways.

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What’s the relationship between empathy and compassion?

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Empathy

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is an emotion skill set that allows us to understand what someone is experiencing and to reflect back that understanding.

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We can respond empathetically only if we’re willing to be present to someone’s pain.

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Compassion

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is recognizing and accepting

our shared humanity

so that we treat ourselves and

others with loving-kindness, and

take-action in the face of suffering.

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Tender readiness of the heart

to respond to one’s own

or another’s pain without despair, resentment, or aversion.

1st grade

CVLCC

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Why Empathy �and Compassion?

  • Address daunting prejudice, marginalization, division.
  • Create small equitable spaces to create a ripple effect.
  • Foster hope through beauty and pain of shared humanity.
  • Understand we are all made of strength and struggle.

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“Hope is a function of struggle. We develop hope not during the easy or comfortable time but through adversity and discomfort.”

Brené Brown

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“Let the book do the work.”�-Travis Crowder

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The Compassion Protocol

  1. Notice:

What challenge, suffering, or distress do

you think Max is experiencing ?

  1. Connect:

In what ways do you connect to Max?

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  1. Act:

What actions might you take as an educator ?

What are you inspired to do?

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Stop at page 17

Break Out Room Discussion

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Author, Kyle Lukoff

Author Video

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The Compassion Protocol

  1. Notice:

What challenge, suffering, or distress do

you think the author experienced ?

  1. Connect:

In what ways do you connect to the

Kyle Lukoff?

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  1. Act:

What are you inspired to do?

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After Video

Chat Your Ideas

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The Trevor Project Article

“LGBTQ youth who report having at least one accepting adult were 40% less likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year.”

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American Library Association

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Strategic redundancy with scaffolding tasks benefit your multilingual learners.

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With familiar structures, multilingual learners can focus more on the complex content and the language.

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What has been sparked for you?

What will you keep doing?

What will you stop doing?

What will you start doing?

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Be well and be in touch,

Elizabeth Pappas

epappas@ucsd.edu