Spokane County Library Suggests…
Fairness List
K-2
An ABC of Equality by Chana Ginelle Ewing
Feast of Peas by Kashmira Sheth
Hot, Hot Pancakes! by Kimura Yuichi
Little Taco Truck by Tanya Valentine
Two for Me,…
Spokane County Library Suggests…
Fairness List
K-2
An ABC of Equality by Chana Ginelle Ewing
Feast of Peas by Kashmira Sheth
Hot, Hot Pancakes! by Kimura Yuichi
Little Taco Truck by Tanya Valentine
Two for Me,…
Below are three easy ideas to stimulate family conversation and activity to explore character concepts, aligned with your child’s school PACE character education program.
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Fairness by Jingle Gorton
What is fairness?
I asked the resident expert at home, my 8-year-old third-grader, what she thinks fairness is. In answer, she said that fair means equal. To illustrate her point, she gave an example of having two cookies compared to her younger brother,…
Read more ›Fairness in the Courtroom?
In life there are few places you will visit in which your desire for fairness is more sincere than when you open the heavy, oak doors, to a courtroom. As much as we expect the aroma of roasted,…
How can we teach the concept of fairness to students? It’s hard for adults to understand sometimes, too. Michelle Hunt, an elementary school teacher, shared the following activity she did with her students.
“When I was student teaching in third grade,…
Read more ›Fairness is an abstract quality that requires you to have an amalgamation of many other character traits, including taking responsibility for your own actions, being honest and sincere, portraying trustworthiness between you and your peers, and many more. To simplify this rather abstract concept,…
Read more ›As a leader in the Spokane Valley Fire Department (SVFD) I often reflect upon those critical characteristics that have contributed to our success as an organization over decades. One of the most important, “fairness” is a character trait that is embedded in the core value set of the employees here at SVFD….
Read more ›The definition of fairness can be paraphrased as: the state, condition or quality of being fair, marked by impartiality and honesty, free from self-interest, prejudice or favoritism. In short, fairness is doing the right thing, at the right time for the right reason….
Read more ›…By the time we are three we all have a pretty good idea of what fairness means. This is the age when our parents tell us to go to bed early and we notice they get to stay up all night.
Read more ›Stephanie Vigil, a news anchor at KHQ, a PACE partner, recently joined East Valley School District and Trent Elementary at a PACE Assembly.
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Read more ›“Fairness always begins with the right attitude toward others.”
As I pulled on my striped shirt and adjusted my hat prior to walking onto CenturyLink Field, I was thinking about two of the players on the Seattle Seahawks football team….
Read more ›…PACE and several PACE Partners were honored the evening January 31, 2015 at the Gem of the Valley Awards of Excellence Gala. This Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce event, sponsored in part by PACE partners Numerica and Modern Electric Water Company,
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