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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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.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
A Whole Child Approach to Addressing Bullying
How can we address bullying locally and nationally so that each student learns in a positive school climate that ensures they are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged? Are your school and community talking about bullying and the impact on students?
- Bridgette Wagoner, director of Educational Services for Waverly-Shell Rock Schools and former interim director of the Whole Child Award winning Price Laboratory School, reflects on the process of creating a shared culture of wellness in her district while taking an honest look at her own wellness in "My Wellness Hypocrisy."
- A piece I wrote for the Washington Post last week got a fair bit of feedback. It was a summary of thoughts around a comment made at the recent Bullying Prevention Summit in Washington, D.C., and concerned a phrase used by one of the presenters, who described classrooms as a “community of 30.” As I [...]
- Superintendent James S. Roberts shares how the Batesville Community School Corporation has partnered with the American Cancer Society to conduct a 10-week Active for Life fitness challenge. Through this challenge, staff are encouraged to engage in physical activity for 30 minutes per day for at least five days per week.
- 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
AUGUST 5, 2010
The Whole Teacher
How is it that some educators are able to address the health and safety of their students; remain supportive; engage and challenge each student; and then head home at the end of the day with enough time and energy to exercise, cook a healthy meal, and get enough sleep?
