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.
Find
What Works
Find What Works
Together, research, practice, local needs assessments, and a commitment to collaboration create a roadmap for what works to educate the whole child. Get the resources you need to identify and address challenges in educating the whole child.
Grade
Your School
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.
President's Council on the Whole Child
Sign the Petition to Create a President's Council on the Whole Child
We ask the Obama administration to establish a President's Council on the Whole Child to attend to the comprehensive needs of students, ensuring that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.
JANUARY 12, 2012
The Future of Assessment
What is your vision for the future of assessment? In this episode, our guests discuss how the current accountability model must evolve from one that is punitive and prescriptive to one that is truly learning-driven and promotes cultures of continual improvement.
- Watch an archived presentation of ASCD author Nancy Frey's recent webinar on comprehensive formative assessment systems that enhance teacher-student relationships to promote learning.
- Through a combination of assessments of and for learning, we get a more comprehensive and continuous picture of student achievement and long-term success.
- Brian M. Stecher of RAND Education suggests three steps we need to take to cultivate schools where students can thrive.
Take Action for Whole Child Education
Make the case for why we need to educate the whole child now. This free resource provides critical research and real world examples of education policies and practices that ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.
January 26, 2012
Comprehensive, Continuous, and Coherent Assessment
Through a combination of assessments of and for learning, we get a picture of student achievement and long-term success.
