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Wednesday: LinkedIn CEO to speak at Hillview

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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner will sit down with Menlo Park City School District officials on Wednesday, March 27, to discuss the value of teaching students compassion.

Kristen Gracia, Oak Knoll School principal, and district Superintendent Erik Burmeister will moderate the discussion, "The Importance of Teaching Compassion to our Kids." Gracia and Burmeister will talk about their own methods of promoting compassion in the schools.

Weiner, who joined LinkedIn in 2008, serves on the board of directors for Everfi, a company that offers online courses in life skills, such as how to manage finances, harassment-prevention training for the workforce, and alcohol education for college students. At Everfi, he is helping to develop a program to help ensure that compassion is taught in every primary school in the country, according to the school district.

There will be refreshments and free child care on site for potty-trained children through the camp Steve & Kate's.

The event takes place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Hillview's Performing Arts Center, 1100 Elder Ave. in Menlo Park.

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Wednesday: LinkedIn CEO to speak at Hillview

Uploaded: Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 3:07 pm

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner will sit down with Menlo Park City School District officials on Wednesday, March 27, to discuss the value of teaching students compassion.

Kristen Gracia, Oak Knoll School principal, and district Superintendent Erik Burmeister will moderate the discussion, "The Importance of Teaching Compassion to our Kids." Gracia and Burmeister will talk about their own methods of promoting compassion in the schools.

Weiner, who joined LinkedIn in 2008, serves on the board of directors for Everfi, a company that offers online courses in life skills, such as how to manage finances, harassment-prevention training for the workforce, and alcohol education for college students. At Everfi, he is helping to develop a program to help ensure that compassion is taught in every primary school in the country, according to the school district.

There will be refreshments and free child care on site for potty-trained children through the camp Steve & Kate's.

The event takes place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Hillview's Performing Arts Center, 1100 Elder Ave. in Menlo Park.

For more information, go here.

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— Angela Swartz

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