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~Organizations working for related goals
~Public schools using whole child models
~Holistic learning approaches
~Publications
~Recommended reading
~Progressive educators' websites
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Organizations Working For Related Goals
Academy for the Love of Learning
professional development for educators taking an integral and experiential approach to learning, in Sante Fe NM
Alliance for Childhood
promoting a broad range of policies and practices essential to children’s well-being.
The Alternative Education Resource Organization
abundant online resource for Learner-Centered Alternatives. Includes links to schools, resources, workshops, conferences and more.
The Association for Constructivist Teaching
based on an understanding of Piaget's scientific theories on how we construct knowledge and moral values, identifies and disseminates effective constructivist practices in both the professional cultures of teachers and the learning environments of children.
The Association for Experiential Education
a community of progressive educators and practitioners dedicated to experiential education
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Whole Child Initiative
educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner.
Center for Collaborative Education
seeks to influence the larger public’s view on education to better support change that fosters democratic and equitable schools through professional development for educators
Center for Courage & Renewal
nurtures personal and professional integrity and the courage to act on it.
Coalition for Community Schools
alliance mobilizing the resources and capacity of multiple sectors and institutions to create a united movement for community schools
Coalition of Essential Schools
coalition at the forefront of creating and sustaining personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schools
Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning
works to advance the science and evidence-based practice of social and emotional learning
The Council for Global Education
provides a new framework for a comprehensive education of a child in the 21st century.
The Creative Learning Exchange
systems dynamics and systems thinking in K-12 Education
Educacion Alternativa
Alcanzado paÍses y comunidades de habla Hispana. Connecting Spanish speaking communities interested in non-traditional education models
Empathy and Education
An online network providing a space for like-minded individuals to connect and share
Empowered By Play
dedicated to helping families and teachers protect and promote imaginative play in this way-too busy, media-filled, consumer-driven world.
The Forum for Education and Democracy
national education "action tank" committed to the public, democratic role of public education — the preparation of engaged and thoughtful democratic citizens
The Freedom 2be Natural Learners
Bringing together everyone who feels that educational systems must be created that serve the true needs of children
and hence the societies in which we live.
The George Lucas Educational Foundation (Edutopia)
in-depth and interactive resource offering practical, hands-on advice, real-world examples, lively contributions from practitioners, and invaluable tips and tools.
Holistic Education, Inc
responds to initial questions often posed by parents about how holistic schools or programs may serve your children's needs.
The Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education Network
seeks to develop approaches to teaching and learning that foster connections between subjects and between learners through various forms of community, as well as a dynamic balance in the learning situation between such elements as content and process, learning and assessment, and analytic and creative thinking.
Implicity/Children of the Code
stewarding the health of our children’s minds
by providing dialogues, writings, technology, and projects focusing on improving children’s learning.
Institute for Democratic Education in America
committed to bridging the disconnect between our democratic values and the way we educate and treat young people
The International Play Association
non-governmental organization with members in close to 50 countries, whose purpose is to protect, preserve and promote the child’s right to play as a fundamental human right.
The International Association for Learning Alternatives
leading, promoting and supporting learning alternatives in education.
The John Dewey Society
keeping alive John Dewey's commitment to the use of critical and reflective intelligence in the search for solutions to crucial problems in education and culture.
Leading and Learning for the 21st Century—New Zealand
a forum to share ideas that will help transform the organizations we work in into constantly evolving communities
The National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest)
works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.
The National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools
a grassroots movement of learners and learning communities dedicated to participant control, liberation from all forms of oppression, and the pursuit of freedom.
National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education
major education, community, public service, and advocacy organizations working to create meaningful family-school partnerships
The National Institute for Play
committed to bringing the unrealized knowledge, practices and benefits of play into public life.
National School Climate Center
helps schools integrate crucial social and emotional learning with academic instruction.
National School Reform Faculty
offers intensive professional development to educators from pre-K to post secondary focusing on developing collegial relationships, encouraging reflective practice, and rethinking leadership in restructuring schools
The New York Performance Standards Consortium
A coalition of high schools across New York State which use a system of assessment consisting of eight components including alignment with state standards, professional development, external review, and formative and summative data.
North Dakota Study Group
diverse network of progressive educators dedicated to advocacy for useful, fair, and democratic ways to document and assess children's learning and offering a criticism of educational reform and practice in the light of an enduring concern with democracy and the estate of childhood.
The PassageWorks Institute
supports educators with practices and principles that integrate social, emotional and academic learning.
People Improving Communities through Organizing (PICO)
Rather than bring people together just based on common issues like housing or education, PICO's faith-based or broad-based organizing model makes values and relationships the glue that holds organizations together.
Personalised Education Now
promotes education based on learner-managed learning, using a flexible catalogue curriculum, located in a variety of settings, and operating within a framework of democratic values and practices.
The Progressive Education Network
a nationwide network of educators committed to sharing teaching practices that foster in students a strong motivation for learning, and the agency for social activism. PEN is dedicated to influencing the course of the national dialogue about early childhood, elementary, and secondary education in America.
Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
longitudinal collections of the art, writing, and other works by individual children, totaling about 300,000 pieces,now available for research purposes at the University of Vermont and online.
School of the 21st Century
Based at Yale University, the 21C program develops, researches, networks, and supervises a national model that incorporates childcare and family support services into schools.
The Small Schools Workshop
a full service consulting firm based in Chicago that helps schools and school districts strategize to create smaller, personalized and effective learning communities.
Touch the Future
balance the human development equation by reframing and supporting continuing Parent-Child Development, not just child development. The site contains hundreds of articles, publications, interviews and research papers on child and human development.
The Trinational Coalition to Defend Public Education
teacher activists from Canada, Mexico and the U.S. who coordinate their opposition to the privatization of public education in all three countries.
The 21st Century Learning Initiative
facilitates the emergence of new approaches to learning that draw upon a range of insights into the human brain, the functioning of human societies, and learning as a community-wide activity.
Tuscon Teachers Applying Whole Language
supports professionals and other individuals in the implementation of whole language philosophy and promotes the acquisition of languages and literacies in all subject areas
Unique Child Network
aims to promote the bringing together of people worldwide who are concerned about the nature of current educational systems and their lack of focus on the wellbeing and innate potential of each child.
United Voices For Education
a coalition of representatives from forty five educational stakeholder organizations dedicated to excellence in education for all children whose goal is affect policy change so that the educational paradigm of America and beyond becomes one of teaching the whole child, rather than one of excessive focus on the academic side of education.
The Whole Child Inititative
identifies five kinds of learning that we like to see each child exposed to, every day if possible.
Holistic Learning Approaches
The Basic School Regional Center - Kansas City
a national elementary school initiative developed by Ernest Boyer, late president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The initiative centers around four priorities: School as Community, a Curriculum with Coherence, a Climate for Learning and a Commitment to Character.
Center for Inspired Teaching
builds the kind of teaching that recognizes each child's innate desire to learn and builds on individual strengths to maximize academic, social and emotional achievement serving teachers, principals, and students in public, charter, and private schools in the Washington, DC metro area.
EdVisions
creates schools that will enhance relationships and build relevant learning environments that empower students, parents and teachers to make choices.
Expeditionary Learning Schools
content and skill standards connect learning to real-world issues and needs. Projects, fieldwork, and service learning inspire students to think and work as professionals do, contributing high-quality work to authentic audiences beyond the classroom.
North American Reggio Emilia Alliance
early childhood education which pays close attention to individual as well as group interests and potentials, and is a form of socio-constructivism that takes into account the deeply-felt desire "to do nothing without joy."
Public School Montessorian
includes Montessori practitioners who are using the ideas and practices of Maria Montessori in other settings. Many of her ideas are now part of our common knowledge, language and thinking about children. Other ideas are being reintroduced as part of larger efforts to reform contemporary education.
Q.E.D. Foundation
New Hampshire organization of adults and youth working together to create and sustain student-centered learning communities based on practices that support students’ growth and learning while improving the health of communities and society.
Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations
identifies 8 Conditions that need to be in place if students are to strive for, and fulfill, their academic, personal and social promise. These Conditions emphasize relationships, engaged learning, and students' sense of purpose. Responsive Classroom
emphasizing social emotional, and academic growth in a strong and safe school community, the approach consists of practical strategies for helping children build academic and social- emotional competencies.
Summa Institute
a learning community where "Natural Learning Relationships" programs and curriculum are implemented to change the world through alternative education, family development, parenting classes, research and professional development.
Tribes Learning Community
students learn a set of collaborative skills so they can work well together in long-term groups (tribes), creating a positive school or classroom environment.
Association of Waldorf Schools of North America
based on the work of Rudolf Steiner to transform education into an art that educates the whole child—the heart and the hands, as well as the head.
Publications
These are the tip of the iceberg, but good beginning places:
Edweek: Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch's blog, "Bridging Differences"
Family Communications
Holistic Education Press
Jerome Bruner Library
Rethinking Schools
The Encyclopedia of Informal Education
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Recommended Reading
A small selection--hate to leave out so many good ones! Go to Facebook or Amy's blog to suggest others, or comment on these!
RECENT:
The Flat World and Education, Linda Darling Hammond
Below C Level: How Americal Education Encourages Mediocrity--and What We Can Do About It John Merrow
The Death and Life of The Great American School System, Diane Ravitch
Educational Genocide, Rog Lucido
Educating for Human Greatness, Lynn Stoddard
Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right, Richard Rothstein, Rebecca Jacobsen and Tamara Wilder
Lives of Passion, School of Hope, Rick Posner
Making an Extraordinary School: The Work of Ordinary People Len Solo
Playing for Keeps, Deborah Meier, Brenda Engel and Beth Taylor
Seeds of Tomorrow: Solutions for Improving Our Children's Education, Angela Engel
Tested Linda Perlstein
Kindergarten Julie Diamond
OLDER FAVORITES:
The Schools Our Children Deserve, Alfie Kohn
The Power of Their Ideas, Deborah Meier
Learning Together; Children and Adults in a School Community, Barbara Rogoff, Carolyn Goodman Turkanis, Leslee Bartlett
The Open Classroom Herbert Kohl
For a very wide collection of books CD’s and DVD’s covering many aspects of what it means to educate go to http://www.educationrevolution.org/products.html
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Progressive Educators With Websites
to get you started—suggest others!
Marion Brady
Howard Gardner
Howard Katzoff
Alfie Kohn
Deborah Meier
Ron Miller
Dr. Kathie Nunley
(practical classroom applications of current brain research)
Susan Ohanion
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Other Videos Related To Educating the Whole Child
American Teacher
Changing Education Paradigms (dry name but great annimation of a Sir Ken Robinson speech)
Lessons From the Real World
Race To Nowhere
School Sleuth
Speaking In Tongues
Teach!
Teached
The Hobart Shakespeareans
The Inconvient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman
World Peace...and other 4th Grade Achievements
Why Do These Children Love School
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