Developing Policy for the Whole Child
Linda Darling-Hammond & Channa Mae Cook
Chapter five discusses taking a “whole child approach” to education policy and how such an approach values students’ strengths, needs, and interests.
“A focus on social-emotional learning, mental health supports, learning acceleration, robust expanded learning opportunities during summer and after school, and universal free school meals are just some of the emergent shifts in traditional schooling....This shift in focus can take hold if policymakers and district leaders move away... from the depersonalized factory model that has persisted for over a century to consider that new ways of schooling are needed.”