For example, we look carefully at how kids, on
our whole child indicators, are being supported, and challenged, and engaged, for an example, so I think that whole child data is important.
The ASCD School Improvement Tool is an online needs assessment survey that focuses on
the whole child indicators as well as measures of sustainability, school climate and culture, curriculum and instruction, leadership, family and community engagement, professional development and staff capacity, and assessment.
ASCD's
whole child indicators also serve as a guide for what a good school climate looks like.
Not exact matches
Their strategies include those described in ASCD's
indicators of a
whole child approach.
Currently, Tacoma's
whole -
child data are available online, in an interactive format that allows analysis by poverty, race, grade level, and other
indicators.
School board Chairman Kurt Miller said the board is considering whether to replace or add any
whole -
child indicators.
ASCD believes this next - generation approach to school accountability is essential to promoting a
whole child approach to education, enhancing understanding of student progress, and ensuring that no single
indicator of student achievement defines success.
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
It will comprise between 10 and 15 schools that commit to comprehensive school improvement and community engagement using the tenets of ASCD's
Whole Child Initiative — healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged — and the
indicators (PDF) as a sustainable approach to educating their students.
ASCD has long promoted a
whole child approach to education, and we are pleased that Congress has recognized the value of this approach by broadening the range of
indicators states are required to use to measure student achievement and school quality.
Under the opportunity and access
indicator, staff recommended schools earn credit for
whole child support based on providing:
It includes a needs assessment on
indicators of school climate, instruction and curriculum, leadership, community and family relationships, sustainability, and ASCD's five tenets for the needs of the
whole child.
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.
Schools applying to participate in the
Whole Child Network will commit to a comprehensive school improvement process using the tenets of the Whole Child Initiative — healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged — and their indicators (PDF) as a sustainable whole child approach to educating their stud
Whole Child Network will commit to a comprehensive school improvement process using the tenets of the Whole Child Initiative — healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged — and their indicators (PDF) as a sustainable whole child approach to educating their stud
Child Network will commit to a comprehensive school improvement process using the tenets of the
Whole Child Initiative — healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged — and their indicators (PDF) as a sustainable whole child approach to educating their stud
Whole Child Initiative — healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged — and their indicators (PDF) as a sustainable whole child approach to educating their stud
Child Initiative — healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged — and their
indicators (PDF) as a sustainable
whole child approach to educating their stud
whole child approach to educating their stud
child approach to educating their students.
With all of the buzz around
whole child learning practices, many were surprised that not a single state included a social emotional learning (SEL) component as an
indicator to measure.
To help you ensure that each student is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged, ASCD has developed descriptive
indicators that give schools and communities a clear understanding of what a
whole child approach to education looks like.
What we need instead is a
whole dashboard of
indicators that monitor better measures of success for the
whole child — a critical, creative mind, a healthy body and an ethical character.
Visit www.ascd.org/wholechildindicators to download
indicators for each tenet as well as an additional set to support a sustainable, communitywide,
whole child approach.
Kronick, among many who called for use of existing data - driven
indicators, also said health and fitness results should be used because only when schools take a
whole -
child approach to education will they reach all students.
In fact, these
indicators are among those we consider in the selection process for Vision in Action: The ASCD
Whole Child Award.
The schools committed to a three - year comprehensive school improvement process using the tenets of the ASCD
Whole Child Initiative — healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged — and their indicators (PDF) as a sustainable whole child approach to educating their stud
Whole Child Initiative — healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged — and their indicators (PDF) as a sustainable whole child approach to educating their stud
Child Initiative — healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged — and their
indicators (PDF) as a sustainable
whole child approach to educating their stud
whole child approach to educating their stud
child approach to educating their students.
The faculty at this school have become more intentional about carrying out its School Improvement Plan after it has been updated to include tenets and
indicators of the
whole child.