wholechild

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Rebecca Midles is joined by a former guest on the Getting Smart Podcast and a friend of Getting Smart, Stephanie Malia Krauss. Stephanie is the author of multiple books, including Making It and the new Whole Child, Whole Life: 10 Ways to Help Kids Live, Learn, and Thrive.

Links: 

• Whole Child Whole Life

• Stephanie Malia Krauss Website

• Past episode with Stephanie

In a conversation with Jessica Horowitz-Moore, Executive Director of ODE’s Center for Student Supports, Becky Hornberger and Mark Jones will uncover the great resources that are available to help you serve the ‘whole child’ needs of your students. Horowitz-Moore shares an overview of what her center does, highlights the key resources she most wants administrators to know about, and gives an introduction to the workshop topics that her group will be sharing at our Professional Conference this summer.

• ODE's email resource, EdConnection
• Center for Student Supports Ideas for Innovation website:
• OAESA Professional Conference Brochure
• Each Child Means Each Child
• Whole child framework infographic
• BetterLesson's "I Wish My Teacher Knew" resource center

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Rebecca Midles is joined by Dr. Ulcca Joshi Hansen, the Chief Program Officer at Grantmakers for Education. She is also the author of The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive. 

Ulcca has a career built upon learner-centered and inclusive education policies and her new book looks for ways to incorporate those human-centered approaches alongside social justice and large-scale education reform. 

Let’s listen in as they discuss identity, definitions of indigenous, codification of learning and more. 

Welcome back for Episode 10 and final episode of Season 1 on this blistering Sunday! Today, we sit down with current secondary school principal Dave Rawnsley. He led the first Canadian school (a community school) that won the ASCD Vision and Action Whole Child Education Award. We chat with Dave about the Whole Child Education approach - what that means for schools, especially community schools - and the strategies he has found productive and beneficial to students over his years of teaching.

RESOURCES:

- https://acebc.ca/resources/elements-and-threads/
- http://www.ascd.org/whole-child.aspx

QUOTES:

"In 2005 when ASCD decided it was time to reemphasize education for the whole child, some critics wrote that such an aim was "soft and squishy." Their criticism overlooked an essential component of whole child education. Although those who advocate for education for the whole child may not believe that a single "get tough" strategy works, they know that offering students meaningful challenges does. Children - much like adults - learn best when they are engaged, supported, safe, healthy - and, most surely, challenged." - Marge Scherer

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast we’re joined by three esteemed guests to discuss the new AASA Report issued by the Learning 2025 Commission, which makes a commitment and a recommendation for whole child design. 

Joining us today is Dr. Luvelle Brown who is currently serving as the Superintendent of the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) in Ithaca, New York. 

We’re also joined by Dr. Pamela Cantor, founder of Turnaround for Children and currently a governing partner of the Science of Learning and Development Alliance.

Lastly, we are joined by Valerie Truesdale, Deputy Director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association. 

Let’s listen in as Tom talks with these guests about the findings in the new report and why a commitment to whole child design is more important than ever. 

Links: 

• Learning 2025 Report
• Twitter: Dr. Luvelle Brown
• Twitter: Dr. Pamela Cantor
• Twitter: Valerie Truesdale
• Science of Learning and Development Alliance
• Ithaca City School District
• Turnaround for Children Toolbox
• AASA