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Description: "Finding Howard: The Legacy of a Song" is a documentary film about empathy, forgiveness, and hope. Through inspiring conversations with educators, community leaders, activists, and scholars, as well as deeply touching letters written by children across the US and Canada, "Finding Howard: The Legacy of a Song" tells the story of how a song and the work in schools created by inspired educator David Levine, can be a model for creating communities of belonging and safety for all.
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Finding Howard: The Legacy of a Song is a documentary film about empathy, forgiveness, and hope. Through inspiring conversations with educators, community leaders, activists, and scholars, as well as deeply touching letters written by children across the US and Canada, Finding Howard: The Legacy of a Song tells the story of how a song and the work in schools it inspired can be a model for creating communities of belonging and safety for all.
As an educator, I had been in search of ways to create learning experiences about empathy and caring that were both memorable and hopeful. Upon hearing the song Howard Gray for the first time in 1987, I knew I had found what I had been looking for. Written by Lee Domann, Howard Gray tells the true story of how he, as a young boy, stood by as a classmate was harassed and bullied. Two weeks after first hearing the song, I had my students round up the chairs in our classroom, and I sang them Howard Gray . Thos
Our film, Finding Howard: The Legacy of a Song, is a call to action for the creation of caring and compassionate communities where children feel safe, understood and listened to.
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