The Whole Child Approach
The Whole Child Approach
Each child, in each school, in each of our communities deserves to be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. That’s what a whole child approach to learning, teaching, and community engagement really is.
URGENT Action Needed!
SUPPORT THE NATIONAL WHOLE CHILD RESOLUTION
Ensure all children receive a whole child education. Tell Congress to co-sponsor the whole child resolution!
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Sign the Whole Child Petition
Sign our petition to tell your state board of education that they must do more to educate the whole child.
MARCH 8, 2010
Putting Vision into Action for the Whole Child
This month's Whole Child Podcast was recorded live at ASCD's Annual Conference and features the winning school of the first-ever Vision in Action: The Whole Child Award, Iowa's Malcolm Price Laboratory School.
- Post submitted by Whole Child Blogger Chris Perez. To keep students from feeling left out—and thus risk losing them along the way—Spence Rogers, in his ASCD Annual Conference session “Reaching Strategies That Reach Challenging Students,” urged educators to not allow students to feel embarrassed and not let them shut down in class. Rogers, author of Teaching for [...]
- Post submitted by Whole Child Bloggers Melissa McCabe and Emily Hays. Eric Jensen, author of Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can Do About It, whole child guest blogger, and podcast guest presented to a packed room at ASCD’s Annual Conference this past weekend. He discussed the [...]
- Post submitted by Whole Child Blogger Laura Varlas. In her ASCD Annual Conference session, “Supporting the Recently Exited English Language Learner in Secondary Schools,” Barbara Beaverson discussed how ELL support teachers bridge the gaps between ELLs and high school pedagogy. Beaverson focused on high school because she’s found teachers at this level have the least preparation [...]
- A Look at Community Schools
- Organized Communities, Stronger Schools: The Impact of Community and Youth Organizing on Public School Reform
- Raising and Educating Healthy Boys: A Report on the Growing Crisis in Boy's Education
- Realizing the Promise of Promise Neighborhoods
- Resilience in African American Children and Adolescents
MARCH 3, 2010
Be It Resolved
Congress has the chance to endorse a whole child approach to education by passing the first-ever national Whole Child Resolution! House Resolution (H. Res.) 1093 designates March as "National Whole Child Month" and makes a whole child approach to education a national priority...
