ASCD Launches a Web Site for Whole Child Education
As part of its public engagement campaign to encourage educators, parents, the public, and decision makers to rethink how they educate young people, ASCD has launched a new interactive Web site: www.wholechildeducation.org.
Educators, parents, students, business and community leaders, and citizens will find tools to urge policymakers to ensure that all our children become healthy, productive, engaged citizens. Site visitors are invited to grade their schools and communities on the key components of ASCD's New Learning Compact; pledge to support whole child education; share stories about great schools and classrooms; contact their local, state, and federal policymakers; and access resources to help them make the case for a well-balanced education that emphasizes academic rigor as well as the essential skills of critical thinking and creativity.
In addition, ASCD will sponsor a series of community conversations to build understanding and win broad-based public support for the association's holistic approach to learning.
- Each student enters school healthy and learns about and practices a healthy lifestyle.
- Each student learns in an intellectually challenging environment that is physically and emotionally safe for students and adults.
- Each student is actively engaged in learning and is connected to the school and broader community.
- Each student has access to personalized learning and is supported by qualified, caring adults.
- Each graduate is challenged by a well-balanced curriculum and is prepared for success in college or further study and for employment in a global environment.
A New Leader for ASCD
Nancy DeFord has taken office as ASCD's new president. Vice president of DeFord Ltd., she is the retired superintendent of the Park City School District in Utah and has been a teacher, administrator, and consultant in Texas, Virginia, and Utah as well as in England and France.
In her current position, DeFord works with several nonprofit foundations on projects related to education, and her current consulting interests include planning, interest-based decision making, and facilitation. DeFord was president of Utah ASCD in 2002; in 2006, she served as ASCD's president-elect.
EL Online Summer Edition
In mid-June, look for Educational Leadership online atwww.ascd.org/el. We'll be running articles that focus on a rigorous whole child approach to education as well as some special topics.
Look for The Best of EL in mid-July, in which we offer a compilation of the year's most provocative articles, one from each issue. Then we'll see you again in September, with our issue on Teachers as Leaders, which will explore how teachers influence school capacity for change, professionalism, instructional improvement, and student learning.
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ASCD Announces 2007 Emerging Leaders
ASCD has selected 14 new members of its Emerging Leaders Program. Emerging leaders are educators who have been in the profession 5–15 years, hold promise as ASCD leaders, and are committed to fulfilling leadership opportunities.
Nominated by ASCD leaders, emerging leaders participate in a mentorship program and complete a program of activities that includes ASCD Professional Development Online courses designed to enhance their understanding of the Association's mission, history, and community. The emerging leaders will also take part in the ASCD Leadership for Effective Advocacy and Policy (LEAP) Institute, September 16–18, 2007, in Arlington, Virginia, which will feature visits to Capitol Hill.
- Erin Baumgartner: Assistant Professor, Curriculum Research and Development Group, College of Education, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
- Arcelius Brickhouse: Principal, Waldon Woods Elementary School, Prince George's County Public Schools, Upper Marlboro, Maryland
- Curtis Cain: Director of Curriculum and Professional Development, Park Hill School District, Kansas City, Missouri
- Samuel Dasher: Principal, Louisville Middle School, Jefferson County Board of Education, Georgia
- Todd Davidson: Senior Pastor, Piney Grove Church, and School Board Member, Virginia Beach City Public Schools, Virginia
- Anthony Frontier: K–12 Director of Instruction, Whitefish Bay School District, Wisconsin
- Shelia Garcia: Student Achievement Specialist, Georgia Department of Education, Savannah, Georgia
- Eric Levitt: Principal, Cowpens Elementary School, Spartanburg School District Three, South Carolina
- Keith Look: Meyzeek Middle School, Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, Kentucky
- Arpine Ovsepyan: English Teacher, Herbert Hoover High School, Glendale Unified School District, California
- Brian Peterson: Assistant Principal, Columbia Elementary School, Las Cruces Public Schools, New Mexico
- Joris Ray: Director of Alternative Schools, Memphis City Schools, Tennessee
- Jenefer Tirella: Assistant Supervisor of Staff Development, Carroll County Public Schools, Westminster, Maryland
- Thomas Tramaglini: Director of Technology, Assessment, Instruction, and Gifted and Talented Programs, Freehold Borough Schools, New Jersey
