If you stand for whole child education, you can speak out for it, too. Members of the whole child community like you make a difference by advocating to ensure that every child is healthy, safe, engaged in learning, supported by caring adults, and exposed to a challenging curriculum that includes arts, music, and other essential courses. Return to the Policy Blackboard to learn what you can do right now to make education of the whole child a reality in our communities' states and country.
Use the search below to see what leaders in your state and community are saying and doing to promote or prevent learning that supports the whole child. You may find some unlikely supporters or some people who need more information.
"Full Service Community Schools improve the coordination, delivery, effectiveness, and efficiency of services to children and families. They ensure the best use of resources and they help strengthen communities. Full Service Community Schools are a 21st-Century way of educating America's children."
Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-5th MD), sponsor of the Full-Service Community Schools Act
"We want to do everything we can to encourage physical activity and education among our young children, but we don't want to crowd out important other areas like arts, music and those kinds of things."
Governor Brad Henry (D-OK)
In Law to get Oklahoma kids moving in healthy direction, The Oklahoman, May 6, 2008
"We can't be cautious and extraordinary at the same time."
Carlos M. Azcoitia, Founding Principal, Spry Community Links High School, and Assistant Professor, National-Louis University College of Education
In A new vision of 'community schools,' Catalyst Chicago, September 2005
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