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Open-Ended Responses to Survey Questions

Survey Question Student Answers
What are two great things about YOU? My love for anyone and helping kids.
I’m funny and I love my friends.
I’m kind and I’m caring.
I’m kind and I’m pretty.
I am beautiful and I have rizz.
I like hanging out with new people.
I’m smart and I work hard.
I have a good personality, and I love my dog.

What do you wish we had spent more Doing my work.
time on? How to talk to others.
I think we spent enough time on everything!
Playing and having fun.
I don’t know.
Stress.
Nothing.
I don’t know.

What ideas will you take and use? Helping others.
I don’t know.
Talking to others.
Be kind to friends.
Everything we learned is good.
Understanding people.
The talking and listening thing.

What is one way to be a better friend? Be kind.
Help others.
Don’t judge.
Support them.
Be kind.
Don’t interrupt them.
Try to understand them.
Hang out together.

Discussion of Outcomes
Overall, based on responses to the question regarding taking the club again, I would say this
was a very successful program: 87% of students would want to take the club again if it was offered.
Students answered that they learned more about how to be kind, how to improve their communication
skills with strategies in both listening and talking, and how to better understand others. When asked
about the most helpful concepts on which they had worked, 62% of girls answered “How to talk to

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