Compassion is an important social-emotional skill that begins to develop in early childhood and is essential for lifelong health and success. Learning compassion increases a student's sense of wellbeing and improves the learning environment for all learners. By developing empathy in children, educators lay the groundwork for long-term understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom and in life.

EVERFI’s SEL program, The Compassion Project, has been helping educators teach 2nd-3rd graders the complex but critical skill of compassion since 2018. The Compassion Project builds key social-emotional learning competencies, such as development of the understanding of self, social awareness, and relationship skills. Now we are building on our strengths and expanding this curriculum with a new course designed to meet the needs of students in 4th-5th grade, focusing on the complex but critical skill of compassion.

With interactive online activities and robust offline lesson plans, The Compassion Project provides invaluable resources for teaching empathy in the classroom.