Mary's Mail
Dear ,
Welcome back to a new school year which is always hopeful because it is a refresh and a chance for you to give children an opportunity to understand their own feelings and become their own best friend. When children learn about their feelings through our Tiny Teachers around the Green Blanket with you as coach, it is a safe launching pad for them to be able to understand how their friends feel. In this fractured world what a beautiful thing to do, to help children develop the ability to be in relationship with others. This is how democracy can grow and we know that empathy is the best peace pill we have.
Thank you for caring and volunteering your time and expertise to cultivate empathy in children so that they will be able to change the world. As we have been bringing Roots of Empathy to classrooms for 29 years, we have the privilege of often hearing back from the school children who had the program many years ago. We are charmed to hear what they remember about the baby and about the experience. They nearly always remember into adulthood and parenthood, all feelings are okay, never shake a baby, put a baby to sleep on their back, a crying baby isn’t a bad baby but a baby with a problem, and Love Grows Brains.
Many Roots of Empathy host teachers and former students tell us that the year that they had Roots of Empathy was their favourite year.
With warmest wishes,
Mary
Chère/Cher ,
Bienvenue! Nous vous accueillons chaleureusement en vous remerciant de tout ce que vous avez fait et ferez pour que les enfants se sentent à leur place dans leur classe.
En ce début d’année scolaire 2025-2026, les enfants du monde entier sont plus perturbés que jamais et ont besoin de soutien sur le plan de la santé mentale. En période d’instabilité, le principal point d’ancrage dans la vie des enfants est souvent l’école. L’école fournit un cadre stabilisateur, unificateur et très souvent très rassurant; elle forme la toile de fond de l’enfance. Racines de l’empathie est convaincu de pouvoir aider les enfants à parler de ce qu’ils ressentent et à développer leur « auto-empathie » et leur empathie pour les autres : ainsi, forts de leur bien-être et d’une bonne santé mentale, ils trouveront mieux leurs repères dans leur monde.
Racines de l’empathie a été reconnu et récompensé pour ses succès, notamment par HundrED, un organisme à but non lucratif international basé en Finlande. Pour la sixième année consécutive, HundrED a jugé que Racines de l’empathie faisait partie des meilleures innovations mondiales en matière d’impact et d’évolutivité dans le domaine de l’éducation. Notre organisme a eu l’honneur d’être intronisé au panthéon de HundrED à titre de membre permanent à l’automne 2022 et, plus récemment, d’être retenu au niveau international parmi les meilleurs programmes du domaine de l’éducation qui soutiennent la santé mentale des enfants. Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur Racines de l’empathie, consultez notre site Web à l’adresse https://rootsofempathy.org/ et suivez-nous sur les médias sociaux @rootsofempathy .
Nous sommes ravis de déplier à nouveau la couverture verte pour accueillir nos « petits profs » dans les écoles pendant l’année scolaire 2024-2025. Racines de l’empathie est prêt à aider les enfants à relever les défis qui les attendent en leur donnant les outils nécessaires pour comprendre et reconnaître leurs sentiments, et pour en parler.
Avec reconnaissance,
Mary
Dear ,
On Oct 26th, Roots of Empathy was selected as one of the top four most inspiring education innovations in the world, and the only North America program for 2023! I am so pleased to share this honour with you, as you are a huge part of the success of Roots of Empathy reaching and helping children.
HundrED, who has honoured us for the past 5 years in a row as part of their 100 innovative education programs, has now inducted Roots of Empathy into their Hall of Fame – an honour that puts us in another category.

To be part of this new category as part of their HundrED Global Collections release, ROE had to continuously demonstrate sustained impact and scalability, and provide evidence of being responsive to the current needs in education worldwide over the last five years. Fantastic recognition from an organization that seeks to promote "innovative, impactful and scalable approaches" that "help our children flourish in life" and that can be spread across the world; and whose discerning Academy members include academics, educators, innovators, funders, and leaders from countries around the world.
Please enjoy and share this wonderfully affirming news - feel the intrinsic pride of your work and dedication that is the global recognition of all our impact. We invite you to share the news with your networks.
You can find posts about the Roots of Empathy announcement into the HundrED Hall of Fame at:
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/RootsofEmpathy/photos/a.480608792057525/5469889346462753/
Twitter
https://twitter.com/RootsofEmpathy/status/1585995202048696321
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6991072586877063168
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/CkQo_ClufXT/
Email:
If you would like to send an email(s) to a contact(s), and need help with an intro, please contact hsargeant@rootsofempathy.org to help you construct one that links to this online page which describes ROE and has a great graphic of all of our recognitions from HundrED.
Congratulations,
Mary Gordon