Whole Child Learning

Empower Students and Teachers

At the center of our vision is the student. Institutions need to adapt and learn from kids. It’s not just about what is taught and how it’s taught. It’s about who. All children should have access to an empowering education and the opportunities it provides. Providing it starts with changing our own perceptions of accountability, performance, and representation.

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Whole Child Education

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To provide more equitable experiences for all young people, we must support students’ academic and social-emotional development in ways that are responsive to this current context. To be clear, this will require deep and adaptive work. There are no quick fixes or checklists that will lead to immediate solutions. At the same time, working for educational equity requires three processes that are sequential as well as iterative: learn, unlearn, and advocate. These processes should occur across stakeholders, from students, to teachers, to school and system leaders, to families and community members.
Learn how we began this work
Research over the past few decades in the educational and developmental sciences has demonstrated that social, emotional, and academic learning are inherently intertwined. For educators to best support student learning, educational environments need to be responsive to all of these dimensions of young people’s development.

Our partnership with TransformED allowed us to pilot whole child practices in five pilot schools across the US to see the impact of integrating whole child learning into schools.
Read our report detailing the results of implementation
- Discover how students and educators felt empowered with the implementation of whole child learning through our partnership at Everett Middle School.
- Gain resources to switch from a deficit mindset to an assets-based mindset as you prepare to implement a new whole child or social emotional learning practice.
- Learn about how students feel a sense of ownership in their education after schools focused on one whole child practice and academic priority in the school year.
- Prepare to unify your building to tackle this work by learning how to invest a school community in the teaching and learning cycle and ground in shared language and mindset.

Educating the Whole Child

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Our latest report details how increasing student voice in the classroom increased students’ ownership in their education. Find the practices they incorporated, the data-gathering process, and the positive results!

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