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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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 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 11, 2010
Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award
You know it almost the moment you walk through the door. It's obvious in the way adults and students interact, in the quality of teaching throughout the building...
