What We Offer
Choose To Be Nice offers a wide array of programs and resources to help schools, out-of-school time programs, camps, and families build and sustain a lasting culture of kindness.
Schools and Camps
We offer social and emotional learning (SEL) programs and resources that focus on the nine important values of respect, kindness, acceptance, teamwork, honesty, responsibility, friendship, patience, and courage. Our programs for Early Childhood-Grade 8 are turn-key, comprehensive and include engaging curriculum with supporting resources and activities. All program components are designed to develop and instill the nine values in students and staff throughout the school year and summer.
Families and Communities
We use simple and inspiring language to keep our resources and tools relatable and our mission easy to act upon in all environments. Our family and community resources promote and offer opportunities to practice our nine values outside the classroom and out in the world!
Featured Schools
Learn about how preK-8 schools across the country are having success with Choose To Be Nice. Read how preK students in Massachusetts sign the Promise Banner with their thumbprints. And how 4th graders in an Ohio school apply to be Choose To Be Nice ambassadors. And how middle schoolers in Missouri partnered with a local coffee shop to spread kindness.
We Choose a Life of Kindness
Choosing a life of kindness means being more mindful of how we interact with and relate to others on a daily basis. It also means working to improve our interactions and making them more meaningful. Practicing the nine Choose To Be Nice values every day can help us improve our daily interactions.
Respect
be polite and show consideration for others and their differences
Kindness
be nice and friendly to people wherever you go
Acceptance
appreciate and recognize people for who they are
Teamwork
collaborate and work together with others
Honesty
be truthful and fair
Responsibility
be helpful to others and be accountable for your own actions
Friendship
be a friendly companion other people want to be around
Patience
be calm and understand that some things take time and endurance
Courage
be brave and dare to be nice even when it’s hard
Choose a Life of Kindness
CTBN believes a nicer, more respectful, and accepting world is not only possible, but desired. We also believe that this starts with us as individuals, families, communities, and workplaces becoming more mindful of and making better choices about how we interact with and treat one another. Choosing a life of kindness isn’t just about one act, occasionally when it might seem like a good thing, it’s about a way of life and choosing to be nice every day, everywhere and with every interaction. Make a commitment to yourself and others to choose a life of kindness and civility. Make the Choose To Be Nice Promise!
Dina Creiger
Founder, Choose To Be Nice
“I promise to Choose To Be Nice and help spread kindness wherever and whenever possible.”
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