CSW Joins Harvard's #Common Good Campaign

The Cambridge School of Weston is among the country’s first schools to join a new national campaign to mobilize middle and high schools to prepare young people to be constructive community members and citizens who create a better world. Led by Harvard’s Making Caring Common project, the Caring Schools #CommonGood campaign aims to motivate schools to take action to help mend our country’s fractures and strengthen democracy.

“The CSW community is incredibly excited to join the Caring Schools #CommonGood campaign,” says Head of School Jane Moulding. “CSW is, and always has been, deeply committed to engaging confident, creative young people in active, student-oriented, just-minded learning. Our goal is to develop young scholars who are as intelligent and resilient as they are empathetic and kind.”

 

The campaign seeks to advance the following specific goals by working with schools nationwide:

These goals align with and build on Making Caring Common’s successfulTurning the Tide initiative that has engaged more than 175 college admissions offices nationwide.

 

“Our country is at a crossroads,” says Dr. Richard Weissbourd, Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Faculty Director of the Making Caring Common project. “We need to mobilize the great strengths of Americans to prepare young people to build strong, inclusive communities and to protect democracy. This work has perhaps never been more important.”

 

To join the campaign, schools like CSW commit to taking substantial, meaningful action to advance one or more of the campaign’s goals and to engage in a self-assessment or evaluation process to measure the impact of their action(s). Schools that commit to, implement, and evaluate the impact of their efforts will earn a special designation from Making Caring Common.

 

CSW was one of the schools that joined the campaign as “early leaders” who helped to inform, shape, and build momentum for the campaign. CSW's commitments include the development of an integrated human development curriculum focused on health, identity, service learning, and social justice; a revised and expanded student leadership program; and a commitment to celebrate and broadly support our progressive approach to college counseling that values fit for the student, mindfulness, and quality of educational experience, as opposed to rankings, perceived prestige and raw selectivity.

 

More information about how schools, parents, and students can join the campaign can be found at commongoodcampaign.makingcaringcommon.org.