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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Will You Be the Next to Change? — Whole Child Education

Will You Be the Next to Change? — Whole Child Education:


Will You Be the Next to Change?

This month ASCD relaunched the Whole Child Approach Examples Map. This map, originally launched in August, aims to showcase great schools putting a whole child approach into action. The examples come from not only ASCD—in the Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award winners and Healthy School Communities mentor sites—but also award-winning schools and communities from many of our whole child partner organizations, including four new worldwide partners.

So, what's different? Why the upgrade? The most obvious change is that the map is now truly worldwide. We have examples from Australia and Asia as well as from throughout North America. These examples include schools recognized by our new whole child partner Principals Australia Institute for outstanding work in developing a whole school approach to mental health prevention, positive school climate, and youth