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
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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 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?
- Join author and educator Judie Haynes for a free webinar on the myths of second language acquisition, where you will test your knowledge and learn how to effectively teach the English language learners (ELLs) in your school. Haynes taught elementary English as a Second Language (ESL) for 27 years and currently provides professional developemnt to school [...]
- Large or small, ethnically diverse or homogenous, urban or rural, primary or secondary: bullying occurs in every school and among students of all backgrounds. Yet some schools have a much higher incidence of bullying, while others have minimal problems. If demographic factors don’t predict the incidence of bullying, what does? Attitudes. The attitudes of adults [...]
- We are about to enter the season of the education documentary. Much has been written about the four films coming out for theatrical run and community screenings this fall–Waiting For Superman, The Lottery, The Cartel, and Race to Nowhere–with their takes of the current state of U.S. education. But less has been mentioned about what [...]
- 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
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
Get an Attitude
Large or small, ethnically diverse or homogenous, urban or rural, primary or secondary: bullying occurs in every school and among students of all backgrounds. Yet some schools have a much higher incidence of bullying while others have minimal problems.
