February 17 is Random Acts of Kindness Day. To encourage kids and adults to show kindness to everyone they meet, local authors like Cindy Williams Schrauben are traveling to schools across the state ...

Kirsten Russell of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County leads a reading session with Tuttle Elementary first-graders as part of Embracing Our Differences’ “Bucket Fillers Reading Day.” ...

Embracing Our Differences recently coordinated a one-day virtual readalong with “Bucket Fillers” books involving 8,200 students in 455 pre-kindergarten through third-grade classes in Sarasota and ...

GARDNER — Based on Carol McCloud’s award-winning books and Ann Marie Gardinier Halstead’s “The Bucket Filling Fairy,” the Theatre at the Mount is holding auditions for this lively and colorful ...

MATTOON — These kids don’t just want cups to overfloweth. A group of fifth-grade Mattoon students hopes to fill imaginary “buckets” to the brim with kindness and goodwill, and they dreamed up the idea ...

EGG HARBOR CITY — The Charles L. Spragg School has enacted a new positive character program for students called “Bucket Filling,” a visual representation and language used to describe a person who ...

Embracing Our Differences’ annual “Bucket Fillers” reading initiative recently inspired 10,000 students in 537 pre-K to third-grade classrooms at 70 public, private, and charter elementary schools in ...