Principal McKinney, an elementary principal within Houston ISD, highlights the influence Lovescaping has exerted on the culture, students, and parents at her campus.
Lovescaping® Impact
Love in action—bringing connection, emotional wellbeing, and belonging to families and schools.
Lovescaping® is a relationship-centered framework that teaches love as a daily practice through 15 core pillars—values like empathy, respect, humility, communication, and solidarity. Across families, educators, and students, Lovescaping strengthens emotional regulation, relationships, and community wellbeing.
Impact at a Glance
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of caregivers recommend Lovescaping
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rated Lovescaping sessions “very useful”
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rated Lovescaping sessions “excellent”
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want to continue in future Lovescaping workshops
Families & Caregivers
Lovescaping supports parents and caregivers in strengthening patience, emotional regulation, and family communication—so children can grow in emotionally safe homes.
“I learned to be more patient, love myself more, and communicate better with my family.”
Educators & School Staff
Lovescaping equips educators with tools to build stronger relationships, reduce stress, and create emotionally safe classrooms where students can thrive.
At a flagship elementary campus implementing Lovescaping schoolwide:
- 100% teacher retention during the implementation year.
- Teachers reported the fewest office referrals of their careers.
“Lovescaping changed how I show up in my classroom. The relationships feel safer and stronger.”
Students
Lovescaping helps students build emotional vocabulary, empathy, and conflict-resolution skills—supporting wellbeing, belonging, and positive peer relationships.
Student results (exit surveys):
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of students would recommend Lovescaping to a friend
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of students would participate in Lovescaping again
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of students rated Lovescaping “Excellent” overall
“I learned to love myself.” – 8th grader
“We learn how we can be human.” – 10th grader
Testimonials
“Lovescaping changed my life.”
“I learned to love myself and other people, not only to have love towards one person, I also learned to forgive and to be humble and to have compassion for others.”
“The change has been big for me, since I was able to express some ideas in class next to my friends and teachers, and love encompasses many things, it’s about knowing how to navigate life loving your world and people, it’s fantastic to know and learn every time more about love.”
“I have been in education for 22 years, most of that time as an administrator. From the moment I started teaching, I realized that we were focusing too much on testing and content and not enough on building the child. SEL is not a new concept for me, I have always known it’s the foundation of teaching and learning. We brought different “programs” into our schools to try to address the socio-emotional needs of our children. But nothing compares with the experience I have had with Lovescaping. How to teach love. How to define love. Love in action. We implemented Lovescaping with a group of 7th-grade girls, our entire staff, and 6th-graders during summer school, and after seeing and experiencing what Lovescaping is, we decided to incorporate Lovescaping not as another “program” but as our framework, our core values, and the basis for character education and socio-emotional learning for our students.
I wish Lovescaping to be implemented in every school in the world, our world would be in a much better place.
Thanks, Irene for bringing Lovescaping to us.
Happy Lovescaping.”
– Teacher at Wisdom High School
-4th grader at Terrace Elementary
– 3rd grader at Terrace Elementary
– Teacher at Wisdom High School
– Communities in Schools Representative at Spring Woods HS
– WrapAround Specialist at Forest Brook MS
– Student Support Specialist at KIPP Polaris
– Communities in Schools Representative at Terrace Elementary
“I liked the fact that we all got to share what we felt and got to be ourselves. You really helped me open to people, thank you for listening to our comments and being there when we needed you or someone to listen. I love you, thank you for being here.”
– 7th grader at Forest Brook MS
“I want to thank you for helping me appreciate life more. I learned that you matter in life. I liked everything, especially when we talked about our days with everyone.”
– 10th grader at Spring Woods HS
“I want to thank you because you showed me a whole different way to think and handle situations and that you will always listen if I wanted to vent. I will truly miss you.”
– 11th grader at Spring Woods HS
– 7th grader at KIPP Polaris
-7th grader at KIPP Polaris
– 10th grader at Wisdom HS
– 10th grader at Wisdom HS
– 1st grader at Law Elementary
-10th grader at Wisdom HS
The impact of teaching people- from young children, to mature adults- how to love, will change the world. Measuring the impact of such a monumental endeavor is by no means a simple task, especially because the effects carry on into the future. But the results will be self-evident: when we build a society based on learning how to love and that practices love in action, we will witness a dramatic decrease in violence, crime, xenophobia, racism, and all other forms of oppression and hatred.
Once the seeds of love are planted, they will only bloom and continue to grow.
However, to gauge whether the classes or workshops are being effective, we will use a survey to assess what was learned, the effectiveness of the lessons and receive feedback.
Whenever there is a class, there will be an initial survey that will assess a person’s current emotional state, learn about their sense of self-esteem, self-love and self-awareness, and understand what sort of interior dialogue they have with themselves. A second survey will be delivered at the conclusion of the course to measure how much people feel the course was beneficial in building their social and emotional skills. In addition, the instructor will be responsible for taking notes and observations on each individual’s process and gather rich, qualitative data that will help us get a sense for the changes that each student undergoes.
The real impact, however, will be long-term, and we hope to keep in touch with our participants to learn more about how Lovescaping® has affected their lives!