Sentences with phrase «whole child initiative»

In order to accomplish this, Texas ASCD reaches out to a broad range of education organizations in Texas to provide information on the work of Texas ASCD and the Whole Child initiative.

To learn more about ASCD's whole child initiative and Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award, visit www.wholechildeducation.org.

They are the five essential elements for educating the whole child, as identified in ASCD's whole child initiative www.wholechildeducation.org (Commission on the Whole Child, 2007).

Since 2009, RIASCD has concentrated its efforts on a Whole Child initiative, originated by ASCD.

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In her article, Ragalie stressed the whole - child approach to health that is reinforced by the values of the learning connection: «With American children spending more than 2,000 hours in school each year, it's clear that in - school wellness initiatives (e.g., Fuel Up to Play 60) and alternate school breakfast programs, can be an engine for positive change to help achieve wellness goals, including being a part of the solution to overcome food insecurity.»

Simply stated, the Cincinnati Waldorf School educates the whole child — enabling children to take initiative and change the world.

Presenting science - driven studies with measurable results and identifying breakfast - in - the - classroom (and other wellness initiatives) champions (like principals) allows you to make a «proof is in the pudding» argument that speaks to the whole child approach to student wellness.

This playground, in combination with the district's Health and Wellness initiative will help to develop the whole child as they Conceive, Believe and Achieve their goals in their journey to go «all the way up,» added Principal Kim Hewlett.

She has launched numerous initiatives to help children eat more nutritious, whole foods, including The Lunch Box, which offers resources and guides to school lunch programs.

This initiative encourages a proactive whole school approach to the prevention of child abuse, which is founded in long - term student education.

Often referred to as «whole child» initiatives, such programs help develop build skills that complement students» ability to learn.

This is a whole school initiative driven by me, but that drive is made a lot easier by the fact everything is attractive, it's quick, so children don't have to sit through half an hour of news, and it has positively impacted on our tutorial lessons.

Attendees will be exposed to a variety of successful strategies and initiatives implemented at schools with a focus on the purposeful integration of technology, a redefinition of learning spaces, personalized learning, and the whole child.

And what I'm wondering is: If you're elected president, will you support and fund the sorts of initiatives that Reconnecting McDowell is there for, that the Coalition for Community Schools supports, and the American Federation of Teachers nationally — the wraparound services, the things that address the whole child needs, that keep students from coming to school prepared to learn?

A central goal of the Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids (CAP4K) is to support the needs of the whole child, which includes social and emotional competencies such as 21st century skills, critical - thinking, problem - solving, communication, collaboration, social and cultural awareness, initiative, self - direction, and character.

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ASCD, a national association of education leaders focused on curriculum practices and policies, launched an initiative in 2007 called «Whole Child,» which calls for states to coordinate services, resources and data collection across school, social, health and safety sectors.

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Within social - emotional learning supports are creating a social - emotional learning framework for educating the whole child, expanding behavior interventions and anti-bullying curricula, connecting the MPS Violence Prevention Program and the City of Milwaukee's trauma crisis team, and implementing the districtwide mindfulness initiative.

As part of its initiative to promote the development of the whole child, ASCD has made innovative high school redesign a top legislative priority.

With initiatives like the ASCD Emerging Leaders program, Teach to Lead, the ASCD Student Growth Center, and the Whole Child for the Whole World program, ASCD is cultivating the education leaders of tomorrow and broadening its advocacy efforts to promote awareness of and support for the comprehensive needs of students.

The students will be offered reading lists, and website links for multicultural books, suggested ideas for family outreach initiatives, multicultural learning strategies within the classroom, challenging inner biases and / or stereotypes about children from other cultures, getting to know the whole child, understanding the cultural family dynamic of your students, and learning to adapt the classroom to the needs of your diverse body of students, etc..

I also appreciate Brooklyn New School principal Anna Allanbrook's weekly letters to parents, which showcase her school's whole child approach and contrast sharply with NYS's test - based education reform initiatives.

Representatives from ASCD, authors, education experts, and Vision in Action: The Whole Child Award and Outstanding Young Educator Award winners will be on hand to discuss ASCD initiatives and the crucial trends and issues that are reshaping teaching and schools today.

One of the lessons we can draw from the success of the initiative is that having multiple indicators of student performance — such as graduation rates, suspension rates, and grade point averages — helps educators see the whole child and address each student's needs.

Social and emotional learning featured prominently in the act, which defined safe and supportive schools as those that ``... foster a safe, positive, healthy and inclusive whole - school learning environment that (i) enable students to develop positive relationships with adults and peers, regulate their emotions and behavior, achieve academic and non-academic success in school and maintain physical and psychological health and well - being and (ii) integrate services and align initiatives that promote students» behavioral health, including social and emotional learning, bullying prevention, trauma sensitivity, dropout prevention, truancy reduction, children's mental health, foster care and homeless youth education, inclusion of students with disabilities, positive behavioral approaches that reduce suspensions and expulsions and other similar initiatives.»

Through this initiative, ASCD helps educators, families, community members, and policymakers move from a vision about educating the whole child to action.

All schools are implementing the district's Whole Child, Every Child initiative, a collaborative effort that frames SEL as a districtwide effort, not an isolated program.

Through the initiative, ASCD helps educators, families, community members, and policymakers move from a vision about educating the whole child to sustainable, collaborative action.

Current UK government policies recognise the need for universal parenting support to complement targeted and indicated approaches29 — 33 and the English Department for Education is currently piloting the offer of free vouchers for parenting classes (the CANParent initiative) to all parents in three areas of the country.34 Such recommendations derive from observations relating to the prevalence of suboptimal parenting, 35 the inefficiency of targeting on the basis of identifiable risk factors36, 37 and the potential for realising change in high risk as well as whole population groups by reducing the stigma which may be attached to targeted parenting support.36 — 38 Given the range and prevalence of health and social outcomes on which parent — child relationships have an influence, 2, 3, 5 — 16 universal approaches are appealing.

A range of strategies and programmes (Health Promoting Schools, Comprehensive School Health, Child Friendly Schools and the FRESH initiative) that share a connecting thread of a Whole School Approach have evolved in the last twenty years, recognizing that all aspects of the life of the school community are potentially important in the promotion of health.

Preventative initiatives such as KidsMatter can also be employed within the whole early childhood setting to help build resilience in all children and increase family involvement.

The initiative uses a whole - setting approach to unite all the people who influence children's mental health and wellbeing - staff, families and the wider community.

Social and emotional learning featured prominently in the act, which defined safe and supportive schools as those that ``... foster a safe, positive, healthy and inclusive whole - school learning environment that (i) enable students to develop positive relationships with adults and peers, regulate their emotions and behavior, achieve academic and non-academic success in school and maintain physical and psychological health and well - being and (ii) integrate services and align initiatives that promote students» behavioral health, including social and emotional learning, bullying prevention, trauma sensitivity, dropout prevention, truancy reduction, children's mental health, foster care and homeless youth education, inclusion of students with disabilities, positive behavioral approaches that reduce suspensions and expulsions and other similar initiatives.»

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He has led a district effort of focusing on the needs of the whole child through several programs and initiatives.

Quoting an ancient proverb — «We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children» — Heider pointed out that sustainability is not simply a smart business initiative, it is the right course of action that will have far - reaching impact on society as a whole.