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Pet Me! Therapy Dogs Calm Watson Road Elementary Students

By Okanagan School of Education on December 12, 2015

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Well-being with pets

By Okanagan School of Education on December 11, 2015

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Kids, kindness, and giant ears

Kids, kindness, and giant ears

By Okanagan School of Education on December 9, 2013

UBC researches how schoolchildren learn the language of kindness The quality of being friendly and considerate with concern for others is the basis for a new study of Grades 1-8 to determine how Canadian kids perceive acts of kindness. John Tyler Binfet, a professor in The University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Education, is exploring […]

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