All educators want to improve the work they do for students, their families, and the community. Whether it's instruction, school climate, leadership, family engagement, or any of the other issues schools face on a daily basis, all educators need tools to help them improve their actions and methods. A whole child approach sets the standard for comprehensive, sustainable school improvement and provides for long-term student success.
Launched in 2007, ASCD's Whole Child Initiative is an effort to change the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the long-term development and success of children. Based on the common language of the Commission on the Whole Child (PDF), the initiative began with five tenets of a whole child education—healthy, safe, engaged, supported, andchallenged—to provide a framework and understanding of what a whole child approach to education means. In 2011, ASCD released a set of ten indicators for each of these tenets, and added the overarching concept
3-13-14 The Whole Child Blog — Turning Resistant Teachers into Resilient Teachers — Whole Child Education
Turning Resistant Teachers into Resilient Teachers — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGTurning Resistant Teachers into Resilient TeachersMarch 13, 2014 by Jessica BohnResistant teachers can have a profound effect on the school climate and culture in both positive and negative ways. In the book Leading in a Culture of Change (2007), Michael Fullan says resisters deserve respect both becaus