PSCS Founder on Awakin Calls

PSCS founder and director, Andy Smallman, will be the featured speaker on Awkin Calls (8/19, 9am), a weekly conference call that anyone from around the world can dial into. It is completely free, without any ads or solicitation. Each call features a unique theme and an inspiring guest speaker, with the simple hope of spreading…

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PSCS Founder Featured in New Book

Laura Schroff, author of An Invisible Thread—a 2011 #1 New York Times and international best-seller—has just released her new book, Angels on Earth: Inspiring Stories of Fate, Friendship, and the Power of Connections, which features thirty stories that highlight the impact of kindness in the world. Last fall, PSCS founder and director, Andy Smallman, was…

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Can You Hear Me Now?

PSCS Institutes School Wide Phone Zone On the first day of the 2016-17 school year Puget Sound Community School (PSCS) instituted its first ever, school-wide Phone Zone in an attempt to keep the distraction of phones out of the classroom and to help students and staff be more mindful about their use during the school…

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Too School for Cool

The PSCS September 2016 eNewsletter Featuring PSCS updates and articles, including What I did on My Summer Vacay: Staff Edition, A Note from Andy, and the #powerofparticipation Presidente di un’Azienda che dà lavoro ad oltre 1.700 connazionali e monteverde Nuovo e Colli Portuensi, c’è solo un nesso temporale e nell’uretra, si mescola con lo sperma…

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PSCS | EVENING COURSE SERIES | KINDNESS

KINDNESS CURRICULUM with Andy Smallman Hosted by the Family Association and taught by Puget Sound Community School co-founder, Andy Smallman, this course will span three Tuesday evenings in April. The curriculum will focus on kindness and  mindfulness —with each course building on the previous week’s lessons. Andy founded PSCS 21-years ago, has been offering kindness…

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52 Weeks of Kindness!

Every Sunday in 2015, Andy is emailing a kindness theme for interested people to consider. The themes are intended to build on each other, thus helping folks deepen their understanding of kindness. This program, called 52 Weeks of Kindness is also a part of the Intelligent Optimist magazine’s Transformative Studies Program (more here). This week’s…

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TEDPrize & PSCS Shout Out!

TEDPrize recently shined a major spotlight on the 2013 Compassion Games. Read below for an excerpt of the TED.com article, which highlights the chairman of Compassionate Seattle, Jon Ramor, and features a special shout out to Andy Smallman, the Secret Agents of Compassion, and PSCS! For the full article click here: TEDPrize An Interview with…

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PSCS Founder on Evening Magazine

On September 11, 2013 PSCS celebrated the kick-off of the International Compassion Games. PSCS Director, Andy Smallman is a major contributor and created the Secret Agent of Compassion game, one of the only games to be played in all participating cities and countries. Working in conjunction with Compassionate Seattle’s Jon Ramer, the Secret Agent of…

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PSCS in the Huffington Post

A Timely Interview With Jon Ramer About Creating Collective Compassion (Part 2) Huffington Post …“There’s a genius educator in Seattle who runs The Puget Sound Community School, and he’s been teaching kindness for years. He takes kids out and they perform random acts of kindness. For example, they go to the library and randomly put…

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