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.

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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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Are your school and community delivering?

Grade your school and find out how well your school and community are doing to prepare our children for the future.

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Sign the Whole Child Petition

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.

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Latest Podcast

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.

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  • ASCD Whole Child Bloggers

    21st Century Bullying

    Post submitted by SmartBrief Education Editor Amy Dominello. Cyber bullying is a problem that schools and courts have only begun to grapple with. But how do school administrators deal with nasty messages posted from students’ home computers or cell phones while they are off school grounds? One guiding standard for how to handle the problem is already [...]

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  • Klea Scharberg

    2009 Year in Review Shares Whole Child Initiative Accomplishments

    Since its inception in 1943, ASCD has built on a core set of values and beliefs in support of the whole child. Launched in 2007, ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative encourages educators, parents, businesses, and communities to work together to ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. The initiative is the latest [...]

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  • ASCD Whole Child Bloggers

    Comfortable Students Leads to Engaged Students

    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 [...]

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