More than Just Gym: Integrating Movement Across the School Day
Research shows that kids who are physically active are not only healthier, but are also likely to perform better academically, and short activity breaks during the school day can improve concentration,...
View ArticleAssessment 101
The true measure of students' proficiency and readiness for college, career, and citizenship must be based on more than just their scores on any state standardized reading and math assessments. It has...
View ArticleThe Future of Assessment
In this episode of the Whole Child Podcast, we discuss the future of assessment and how the current accountability model must evolve from one that is punitive, prescriptive, and often overly...
View ArticleUsing Engaging Learning Strategies to Connect School to the Real World
Learning is active, engaging, and social. Students need to be engaged and motivated in their learning before they can apply higher-order creative thinking skills. They are most engaged when they...
View ArticleWhole Child Around the World: A Good School Is a Good School
Whether your school is in Berlin, Sydney, Ramallah, or Omaha, a whole child approach to education and community engagement -- in which each child in each school and each community is healthy, safe,...
View ArticleCoordinated and Collaborative Responses to Diverse Student Needs
Essential to student success is access to personalized learning and support from qualified, caring adults -- whether those be teachers, principals, counselors, cafeteria staff, custodians, family...
View ArticleWhat Does It Take for Children to Be Mentally Healthy?
A child's mental health is influenced by her biology, social and physical environment, and behavior, as well as the availability of services. Good emotional and behavioral health enhances a child's...
View ArticleRespecting and Reflecting School Culture
A positive school culture is the cornerstone of a good school and the foundation for school improvement. Fully embedding a whole child approach into the culture so that it becomes an integral part of...
View ArticleLeading and Changing School Culture
Students are a part of the school community and can play powerful roles as leaders in a positive school culture. In cultivating students as leaders, schools provide opportunities for personal...
View ArticleFair and Effective Teacher Evaluation
Teacher effectiveness is dependent on accurate and fair evaluations, based on multiple measures, including -- but not solely based around -- their students' performance in the subjects they teach.
View ArticleGreat Expectations: Transforming Practice Through Common Core Implementation
We as educators have a unique opportunity to reset the playing field and make the Common Core State Standards work for us. Now is the time for us to take control and become empowered in the process.
View ArticleHow Can We Make Our Schools Safer?
Safety is and will always be a fundamental concern for schools. What do we, as educators, believe is crucial to making our schools safe -- not just physically safe, but safe places to teach and learn.
View ArticleLeveling and Raising the Playing Field
Many schools have made great strides in addressing students' needs, but some schools have gone further. They have taken an issue that was initially a need and used it to enhance and improve what the...
View ArticleWalking in a Principal's Shoes
Principals are the key players in developing the climate, culture, and processes in their schools. They are critical to implementing meaningful and lasting school change and in the ongoing...
View ArticleThe New Poverty: Dealing with Economic Change
In today’s global economic state, many families and children face reduced circumstances. What are the implications of this new poverty for schools, many of which have seen drastic changes in the...
View ArticleMake and Take the Time to Reflect, Refresh, and Recharge
Summer for educators is often a time to look back on the past year -- and look forward to the coming one. What worked, what didn't, and what will you change?
View ArticleIs Resilience the Secret to Student Success?
Resilience is more than a trait: it's a process that can and should be taught, learned, and required. Being resilient helps youth navigate the world around them, and schools and classrooms are becoming...
View ArticleEarly Childhood Education: Balancing Expectations and What Young Learners...
What does "education" mean for our youngest learners? The first years of school are as important for an educated population as any other period, perhaps more. With the current focus on standards and...
View ArticleAiming High: Working Through the Common Core Shifts
The standards are not a curriculum. Standards are targets for what students should know and be able to do. Curricula are the instructional plans and strategies that educators use to help their students...
View ArticleYong Zhao on Personalized Learning: What Do We Need in the 21st Century?
How do we help each student succeed? One promising way is to personalize learning and put each student at the center of her learning experience. In this episode of the Whole Child Podcast, host Sean...
View ArticlePersonalized Learning Starts with Personal Relationships
How do we help each student succeed? One promising way is to personalize learning and put each student at the center of her learning experience. In this episode of the Whole Child Podcast, we take a...
View ArticleBring Yourself to Work Every Day to Build Trust, Morale, and Culture
School cultures should support, reinforce, and reflect the well-being of everyone in it, ensuring that students and adults feel valued, respected, and cared for and are motivated to learn, lead, and...
View ArticleWhole Child Symposium Town Hall Discussion: Bringing the Questions Together
The decisions we make today -- for our systems, our schools, and our classrooms -- will affect what all of our tomorrows will look like tomorrow. This month ASCD launches its inaugural Whole Child...
View ArticleGlowing, Growing, and Getting Back to the Real Basics
In this era of school reform, turn around, and educational change, it is easy to overlook the basics of why we educate and what we want for our children. What are the fundamental elements and habits...
View ArticleBelieving in Students So They Believe In Themselves
Ask educators why they went into teaching, and the majority will respond that they wanted to make a difference in the lives of young people. In this episode, our guests will share what led them to...
View ArticleHope, Meaning, and Challenge: The Building Blocks of Motivation
Teachers know that engaging and inspiring students initially requires building positive relationships and creating relevant learning experiences. In this episode, our guests take a look at how teachers...
View ArticleBaruti Kafele on Motivation: Linking Attitude to Achievement
In this episode, ASCD's Sean Slade speaks one-on-one with author and veteran educator Baruti Kafele about how knowing your students, intentionally creating a positive school climate and culture, and...
View ArticleWorking Together to Improve Learning and Health: The Education Perspective
Learning and health are symbiotic—what boosts one boosts the other. In this episode, we discuss the potential for education to utilize the benefits inherent in a healthy learning environment and how...
View ArticleWorking Together to Improve Learning and Health: The Public Health Perspective
The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ASCD in spring 2014 is the next evolution for coordinated school health. In this...
View ArticleTalking, Listening, Growing
Talking and listening are indispensable for learning, but they are also crucial for development and our growth as individuals. Whether developing understanding, conveying meaning, sharing thoughts,...
View ArticleLearning and Leading at Every Level: Whole Child Lessons Learned
What does a whole child education look like in a school setting? Four ASCD leaders share elementary, middle, and high school projects, student outcomes, and lessons learned.
View ArticleSTEM Makers and Shakers
From specialty schools to courses and programs of study within larger school offerings, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education is an interdisciplinary approach where...
View ArticleDifferentiated Instruction Works: How and Why to Do DI
Differentiated instruction is an approach to teaching in which educators actively plan and adjust for students' differences so that instruction suits and supports all students' strengths and needs. On...
View ArticleCulturally Relevant Teaching: How Do We Create Equitable Learning Environments?
Students enter the classroom with their own specific learning needs, styles, abilities, and preferences. They also bring with them their own cultures, backgrounds, and personal histories. On this...
View ArticleTeaching Students, Not Subjects
Recorded live at the 70th ASCD Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Houston, Tex., this episode features teachers and administrators from Magnolia Elementary, the 2015 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole...
View ArticleReflective Teachers Are More Effective: Improvement Doesn't Happen by Accident
On this episode, we explore how to develop and grow our capacity for success through self-reflection and its impact on student learning, the quality of our schools, and the state of our profession.
View ArticleSchool Improvement Success: School Leaders Discuss the ASCD Whole Child Approach
The ASCD Whole Child approach is a pathway to sustainable school improvement -- that is, by creating a culture and climate where students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged, schools...
View ArticleWhole Child Across the States: How Are We Doing?
How well are we, as a nation, supporting the whole child? On this episode, we explore ASCD's Whole Child Snapshots and how they can be used to prompt conversations about how well states support the...
View ArticleOne Size Doesn't Fit All: Teachers Share Strategies to Engage Parents and...
Educators often mention engaging families and the broader community as the ideal -- not only in terms of achievement but also in establishing effective communication and a support structure for all...
View ArticleUsing Essential Questions to Uncover Content and Spark Thinking
Students learn best when they are engaged in what they are learning and why they are learning it. In this episode, we explore what makes questions essential, how they are used to engage learners in...
View ArticleWhen It Comes to Learning, Emotions Play An Important Role
Guests: Jeffrey Benson, Giacomo Bono, Laurie A. Namey * How educators respond to students' emotions and emotional behaviors can have lifelong effects—on students' academic growth, on the way they see...
View ArticleBeyond Test Scores: Other Data to Support Student Success
Guests: Marc Brackett, Anthony Cody, and Joshua P. Starr - Data, data, and more data. Educators are asked to gather and interpret student data to guide improvement, measure student learning, and track...
View ArticleTeaching Is a Team Sport
Guests: Peter Anderson, Jeffrey Bradbury, and Gordon Stokes - We may wish for teacher collaboration, by itself, to improve learning, but the reality is more complex. What does team teaching look like...
View ArticleEvery Teacher Is a Leader
Guests: Fred Ende, Maddie Fennell, and Bryan Goodwin - Teacher leadership is not a new topic in education, but it is one that has continued to grow in importance. When teachers are empowered to lead in...
View ArticleEmpowering Our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse English Learners
Guests: Emily Davis, Aman Dhanda, Jane Hill, and Adam Holman - Our schools are responsible for meeting the educational needs of an increasingly diverse student population, including those who are...
View ArticleLearning for All: The Importance of Culturally Responsive Classrooms
Guests: Richard Curwin, Brenda Mendoza, Laurie A. Namey - Classrooms today educate increasingly diverse students who live in a globalized and interconnected world. To ensure our children are prepared...
View ArticleSupporting Students for Success
Guests: Christine Brandt, Krystal Keller, Sharice Madison, Ryan Prosser, Danielle Shumate - Jason Lee Middle School, a high-poverty school in Tacoma, Washington, serves 584 students from grades 6...
View ArticleThe Engagement Gap
Guests: Nancie Atwell and Michael Soskil - Although much has been written about the achievement gap, less has been said about redirecting our focus to student engagement in learning. And focusing on...
View ArticleEmpowering Educators
Guests: Jason Flom, Ross Hall, and Jahana Hayes, 2016 National Teacher of the Year - The skills needed in society today are not the skills that have dominated education for the past half-century. They...
View ArticleEvery Child. Whatever It Takes.
Guests: 2017 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award-winning School Butterield Trail Middle School, Van Buren, Arkansas - Recorded live at ASCD Empower17 in Anaheim, California, ASCD recognizes...
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