In This Issue:

• Happy Anniversary!
• Real Stories
• Quotable: District of Columbia Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee

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Happy Anniversary!

Just one year ago this week, ASCD launched the whole child Initiative by releasing The Learning Compact Redefined: A Call to Action, and developing WholeChildEducation.org. The results have been a growing commitment across the world to ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. In just one year,

• 12, 500 people have signed up to receive this newsletter!
• 11,167 people have viewed ASCD's whole child video on YouTube!
• 5,078 people have graded their school and community!
• 28 organizations have signed on as partners to further the whole child cause!

» We are tremendously grateful for all your support and, of course, there is more to be done. Please learn more, do more, and be heard as you advocate for a whole child education. In recent months we've added blog posts and an RSS feed to the homepage—share your thoughts and comments as you track news about the whole child. We've also added new tools to our Policy Blackboard, including advocacy tips and a Whole Child Resolution Tool Kit. And, in the weeks to come, we will open up a comment feature for you to share your thoughts about the more than 100 stories parents, educators, and policymakers have shared. Thank you for all you do for children!

Real Stories

"Engaging our community has led to support for the whole child in surprising and helpful ways. Our neighborhoods changed more quickly than we anticipated and our focus had to change quickly too. Understanding new cultural norms, embracing unfamiliar family structures, implementing new teaching strategies and classroom environments were necessary. We went into the housing projects with family night events—food, student performances, art work displays, free books, voter registration drives, and our faculty to meet and greet the families... Staying the course for the whole child did bring just rewards."

—Mary K., Columbia, SC
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“[Healthier food] is part of what a well-rounded education should offer. Good nutrition can certainly help enhance academic achievement.”

—District of Columbia Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee
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