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Jul 19, 2009

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary." --Sir James M. Barrie

Kind Acts on Sticky Notes

When she read aloud the small story about a garbage collector's kindness, Katherine Cornthwaite's Grade 10 class went silent."It was an 'Aha!' moment. Everyone's attention was on the story," says Cornthwaite, an English and family studies teacher at Clarke High School, near Newcastle. "I had tried all these different things but they wouldn't settle down," she recounts. "I thought, 'Fine! I'll read you the paper,'" Her class's focus on the story prompted a 20-minute discussion about acts of kindness. "I thought, `I can't leave this,'" she says.