Eight Fold Path

• 439BRight Motivation

  Identify your intentions before everyday activities and notice how different motivations affect your actions and feelings; practice checking your motivation during the day and adjusting when you notice selfish or harmful intentions; and demonstrate understanding that the same action can have different effects depending on your intention.
• Right Motivation in Leaders

  Practice making kind choices in classroom situations by identifying when someone needs help, demonstrating gentle ways to guide friends during play, and explaining how helping others makes everyone feel better.
• 411ARight Speech

  Listen to simple stories about characters who choose kind or unkind words, and practice retelling these stories while demonstrating the difference between helpful and hurtful speech through voice, facial expressions, and body language.
• 439ARight Motivation

  Name simple intentions for daily activities and demonstrate kind actions; practice noticing how different intentions feel in your body (excited, calm, worried); and show caring intentions through helping others with awareness of how helping makes both people feel.
• 410AMindful Listening Practices

  Demonstrate good listening by showing quiet body, watching eyes, and still hands during story time; use listening games with partners where one person talks and the other shows they are listening; and describe what it feels like when someone listens carefully to you.
• 430AFour Noble Truths Overview

  Experience the basic human feelings of sadness, wanting, and feeling better through simple activities; recognize that everyone feels sad sometimes and there are ways to help ourselves and others feel better; and practice simple kindness actions that help when someone is hurting.
• 120ASkillful Communication in Action

  Practice kind and helpful words through daily classroom interactions. Demonstrate the difference between words that help and words that hurt using role-play with stuffed animals or puppets. Create simple agreements about how to use words to make friends feel good.