INDIANAPOLIS — Teach Kindness, a national initiative focused on helping schools cultivate positive, supportive learning environments by teaching the skills of kindness, recently announced the 32 schools to earn its first-ever Kind School Designation for the 2025-26 school year. The designation recognizes schools that establish a shared definition of kindness, provide kindness instruction schoolwide, and empower students to lead projects that support the school or broader community. H.L. Harshman Middle School, Indianapolis Public Schools, is the only Indiana school to achieve the honor. Harshman, located at 1501 E. 10th St.,
Teach Kindness provides free, research-based resources to help schools build positive school climates by teaching kindness as a skill set. Developed in collaboration with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Harvard’s Making Caring Common project, and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, the program has reached more than 10,000 schools across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. since launching in 2017.