Not exact matches
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.»
This
initiative encourages a proactive
whole school approach to the prevention
of child abuse, which is founded in long - term student education.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.»
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.
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.»
During its time in the
Whole Child Network, this school restructured each mandate, program, initiative, and system within the school to «connect the dots» and create a common framework based on a foundation of the five whole child te
Whole Child Network, this school restructured each mandate, program, initiative, and system within the school to «connect the dots» and create a common framework based on a foundation of the five whole child te
Child Network, this school restructured each mandate, program,
initiative, and system within the school to «connect the dots» and create a common framework based on a foundation
of the five
whole child te
whole child te
child tenets.
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.