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If you stand for whole child education, NOW is the time you can speak out for it!
Members of the whole child community like you make a difference by advocating to ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged in learning and the community, supported by caring adults, and exposed to a challenging curriculum that includes arts, music, and other essential courses.
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President's Council on the Whole Child
The We the People initiative is the Obama administration's effort to provide citizens with a new way to petition the administration to take action on a range of important issues facing the United States. If a petition garners 25,000 signatures within 30 days, White House staff reviews it, sends it to the appropriate policy experts, and issues an official response.
ASCD is taking advantage of this initiative and petitioning the administration to make whole child education a national priority. We petition the Obama administration to establish a President's Council on the Whole Child to help students be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged, and we urge you to add your voice in support of this holistic and child-centered push for education at the executive office level.
Sign the petition to create a President's Council on the Whole Child. We have until February 18 to gather 25,000 signatures and then the White House will take the proposal into consideration. Please ask everyone you know invested in children and the future of education to visit the petition and sign!
Community Conversations Project
What do you think about a whole child approach to education? Where do students, parents, educators, community advocates, and business leaders stand on education issues? How can communitywide organizations and businesses help public schools achieve their goals? Can we agree on a basic set of principles regarding how we educate our community's children? Learn more.
