Posted by Chip on October 3, 2011
We need many villages … Yes, it will take many “villages” to move us beyond the constraints and narrow definitions of achievement and success currently assigned to American educational policies and mandated practices in our classrooms and schools. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry [...]
Categories: Building Relationships & Community, Education Reform, Teachers & Teaching, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: achievement gap, Courage to Teach, Education Reform, Educators for Social Responsibility, No Child Left Behind, Open Circle, Parker Palmer, Responsive Classroom approach, schools and democracy, Second Step, test scores, whole child, whole school, whole teacher | 
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Posted by Chip on November 2, 2010
Check out the ASCD and Whole Child websites on Thursday, Novemember 4th, for the “Whole Child Podcast—Changing the Conversation About Education.” JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, click “Post a Comment” or the word “Comments” below the entry —If you’re [...]
Categories: Education Reform, Social & Emotional Learning, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: ASCD, Developmental Studies Center, educating the whole child, Education Reform, Eric Schaps, John Lee, Molly McCloskey, SEL, Social & Emotional Learning, teacher training, whole child | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on February 26, 2009
ASCD’s “Whole Child” blog is an important, action-oriented advocacy site hosted by the nation’s largest educational membership organization on behalf of our country’s school children, their parents, and their teachers. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, click “Post a Comment” [...]
Categories: Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: ASCD, education funding, Great Society, Head Start, Lyndon Baines Johnson, whole child | 1 Comment »
Posted by Chip on July 2, 2008
The children have gone home and the classrooms are empty. Many teachers have packed their rooms and are moving to new classrooms or schools this summer. In our district there are schools closing and consolidating. In other districts around the country there will be more new principals and new teachers in place when children return. [...]
Categories: Schoolwide Issues, Time to Learn |
Tags: close of the school year, end of the school year, last days of school, leaving childhood behind, No Child Left Behind, Schoolwide Issues, Time to Learn, whole child | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on October 10, 2007
Are you at all bothered by the rush of the school day or the pace of our children’s lives? Can children’s brains and bodies accept the media and technology barrage in a healthy way as they merge onto this so-called “superhighway”? I am writing for and you are reading and responding to a “blog,” something [...]
Categories: Time to Learn |
Tags: ASCD, children and technology, Jean Piaget, The Child's Conception of Time, Time to Learn, whole child | Post a Comment »
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