From a smile to holding the door open for someone, acts of kindness can change a person’s day. Woodside’s Aspirations Committee’s Random Acts of Kindness Week encourages people to participate in these small and big acts of kindness to change someone’s day.
Feb. 10 through the 14 is a week where Woodside students are encouraged to do random acts of kindness for friends, staff members and strangers. Students record their acts onto a Google form, and then at lunch on Friday, Feb. 14, students will be drawn to win Woodside swag, such as blankets and shirts.
“[We will have] music in the quad, games and then we’ll have a live drawing of those who participated to win the swag,” Kayla Dice, history teacher and Aspirations Task Force facilitator said.
The Aspirations Task Force focuses on prompting Woodside students to follow the eight conditions, which are belong, heroes, sense of accomplishment, fun and excitement, curiosity and creativity, sport of adventure, leadership and responsibility and confidence to take action.
“The goal [of this event] is just to spread kindness during February, which is kind of a month of love and kindness,” Dice said. “[We want to] build confidence to take action, which is one of our eight conditions [that we are focusing on for this event].”
These acts of kindness make an impact on people’s lives. According to Dice, no matter how big or how small it can spread positivity on campus.
“It can be something as simple as holding a door open for someone, writing a letter to your favorite teacher, or even just saying something positive to someone you see in the hall,” Dice said. “It doesn’t have to be something crazy and take a ton of your time. Just something small can really create a positive vibe on campus.”
EDMO.org said that using empathy or doing something kind motivates others to show kindness as well. Dice said that her goal for this event is to start a chain reaction on campus that results in kindness all around that continues on even past this selected week.
“I hope [this event] will remind students that being nice to each other is actually really meaningful and has a lot of power,” Dice said. “I hope it’ll be a continuous reaction in which people on campus have something nice did for them, they get inspired to pass it along, and we can keep up this positive spirit during this month [and further on].”
