Sentences with phrase «of the whole child approach»

Their strategies include those described in ASCD's indicators of a whole child approach.

This year's theme is «Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture,» and focuses on highlighting the great work of ASCD - associated schools, providing a forum in which educators who implement the whole child approach to education can learn from one another and presenters, and expanding awareness of a whole child approach to educators worldwide.

This report describes the findings of the 2016 School Health Policies and Practices Study, which addresses health education, physical education and physical activity, nutrition environment and services, and other tenets of the whole child approach.

Related resources: The Healthy School Communities Model: Aligning Health & Education in the School Setting (PDF), ASCD's indicators of a whole child approach (PDF), ASCD EDge social network, and the ASCD School Improvement Tool

Another part of the whole child approach is providing a broad, engaging, and challenging curriculum.

«Making sure each child is engaged in learning is one of the five tenets of the Whole Child approach to education for a reason: it ensures that our children are invested in their own success and prepared to encounter challenges in and outside of school.

Publish and disseminate a policy instructional manual and professional development training on state and local actions to facilitate incorporation of a Whole Child approach to education in Texas.

The conference's free online sessions addressed the full breadth and depth of a whole child approach across curriculum and instruction, school climate and culture, family and community engagement, assessment, and leadership.

These efforts to make whole child education a state priority, raise awareness among multiple stakeholders about the benefits of a whole child approach, and provide a foundation for further action are good first steps, but there is more to be done.

The virtual conference will explore the steps that schools and communities can take as they move along the continuum of a whole child approach to education — from implementation to sustainability to culture.

For the Common Core standards to succeed, they also need to be part of a whole child approach to education that ensures students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

Incorporating the components of a coordinated school health program around the tenets of a whole child approach to education.

Collaborative teacher planning sessions, a Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports program, a Response to Intervention Process, a mental health advisory class, and various other programs have all been developed within the framework of a whole child approach.

Not exact matches

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

Being involved in one local area for so long enabled us to really get across the message that engaging fathers needs a whole - team approach, and that it's vital to help mothers understand how much fathers impact of the development of children Kathy Jones, Fatherhood Institute project lead

This whole - child approach is the cornerstone of our philosophy, curriculum and environment.

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It does this by building on the work of our many partners across services and disciplines through a whole community approach to transform the skills of parents and the workforce of all those who come into the life of the child.

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.»

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We look at the whole child and see amazing results because of our unique treatment approach.

All the arguments levelled in the US are the same ones we dealt with — and now that our work has been independently evaluated we are proving that a whole school approach to educating children about food, where it comes from, how its produced, and cooked is a more effective way of reducing obesity, but also increasing pupil attainment and achievement.

Sharing our vision of a «whole child» approach to early childhood education, in which play and social / emotional development are fully integrated into academic programming, Santa Barbara County preschools achieved national accreditation at eight times the California average as of January 2015.

On the whole, however, I would strongly recommend home education as the best way of encouraging gifted children to develop in the way that suits them best — which often bears little relation to the «average» classroom approach.

«This fix - it - now approach ignores basic metabolic conditioning for mother and child, negative reinforcement training, long - term behavioral problems, what it does to the family as a whole and the biblical affirmation of man's nature.»

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

That makes it sound like positive discipline — and Attachment Parenting as a whole, as positive discipline is a part of AP — is a treatment or something for special circumstances, rather than a parenting approach that is appropriate for all children, whether they have an ADHD diagnosis or not.

This whole - child approach is one of the things that make her books so popular.

It is an approach that values the human spirit and the development of the whole child — physical, social, emotional, cognitive.

Treatment is then developed via the whole child approach under the direction of the treatment professional, the child, parents, and school personnel working together.

The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model is an expansion and update of the Coordinated School Health (CSH) approach.

In an effort to halt the rising rates of childhood obesity, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement, Snacks, Sweetened Beverages, Added Sugars, and Schools, recommends families take a broader approach to nutrition, considering children's whole diet pattern — rather than simply the amount of sugar, fat, or specific nutrients in individual foods.

«Reaccreditation not only validates our organization's dedication to proven effective approaches of child abuse intervention and prevention, but also contributes to consistency across the child advocacy center movement as a whole.»

Help and Hope for ADHD The Brain Balance Program is designed to offer a drug - free, integrated approach that focuses on the whole child and brings parents and kids together to achieve a common goal of improving a child's processing and learning ability, leading to a more successful academic and personal life.

The Brain Balance Program is designed to offer a drug - free, integrated approach that focuses on the whole child and brings parents and kids together to achieve a common goal of improving a child's processing and learning ability, leading to a more successful academic and personal life.

My approach has always been to provide opportunities for my children to consume small amounts of chocolate that is real, whole and free of GMOs and always in the presence of healthy fats to prevent excessive consumption or development of addiction.

Not surprisingly, many children see symptoms of autism resolve through a similar whole - body approach.

Delegates attending the BNF conference heard from a panel of eminent scientific experts including Professor Ashley Adamson from University of Newcastle, Dr Graham Moore from University of Cardiff, Professor John Reilly of University of Strathclyde, and Professor Jeanne Goldberg from Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA, about the role and impact of a whole school approach to nutrition; the association between breakfast consumption and education outcomes in primary schools, with particular reference to deprivation; the impact of obesity, and of physical activity, on academic attainment; and research which points to the most effective methods of communicating about nutrition with school children.

Some of these included: having a whole school approach, giving children ownership, having an action plan, integration within the curriculum, having more time, staff passion, having experience of learning in this area, inclusion of all stakeholders, and opportunities for children to interact at first hand with real - life examples.

Senior Lecturer Deborah Jewell - Sherman — like many of the forum's speakers — advocated for a «whole child» approach where all service providers are housed within schools.

«Balanced literacy» is the brand name for an instructional approach that adds a dollop of phonics to an otherwise whole - language reading program in which children are encouraged to «construct» or decipher meaning from so - called authentic texts.

Approaches in such schools tend towards a «whole - of - child» perspective, that puts students» overall wellbeing as the key priority.

Part of the whole school approach is ensuring that if someone has successfully supported a child through mental issues they share what they did and what worked with the rest of the staff.

And that rigid, standardized approach to teaching contradicts so much of what we know from whole - child education research.

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

Alicia Garcia, associate director of the Camino Nuevo Early Childhood Education Center, has a Head Start background that informs the preschool's whole - child approach.

As reported by Schools Week, they will be in charge of coordinating support within schools, helping children access specialist therapies and NHS treatment, and developing a «whole - school approach» to mental health and wellbeing.

Perhaps the greatest single outcome is the growing evidence that the whole systems approach connects very deeply with the intuitive systems thinking capabilities of all children.

The pupil premium research carried out by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has shown how, as part of a whole ‑ school approach, low - cost, high - impact strategies can impacting positively on outcomes for children and young people with SEN and help in narrowing the gap in attainment for our most vulnerable students (http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk).

Here, we lay out how this whole - city approach can look in practice — and what types of partnerships and programs can give disadvantaged children the same chance to reach their academic, professional, and social - emotional potential as more - advantaged peers.