ASUPD - Remote K12 Teacher Summit

Supporting the Whole Child in Distance Learning Settings

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Experts
Name: Emily Mulvihill
Title: Lead Training Specialist
Email: emulvih1@asu.edu

Former K-8 teacher, online English teacher and

experienced administrator

Interesting Facts:
● From the east coast originally, but currently living in
Colorado.
● Avid runner and travel enthusiast
● One daughter, Samantha
 What is the Whole Child
Approach?
Ensuring each child, in each school, in each community is
healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.
 Guiding Question
● How do we support the whole child
development of our students?
 Why the Whole Child
Approach?
● Educators need tools to help them improve student success.
● This approach helps students prepare for the challenges and
opportunities of today and tomorrow by addressing
comprehensive needs and the shared responsibility of
students, families, schools and communities.
 What is the Whole Child Approach?
Ensuring each child, in each school, in each community is healthy,
safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.
Whole Child Tenets

● Each student enters school healthy and learns about and practices a
healthy lifestyle.
● Each student learns in an 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 student is challenged academically and prepared for success in
college or further study and for employment and participation in a
global environment.
Tenet 1: Healthy
 Tenet 2: Safe

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 Tenet 3: Engaged

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Tenet 4: Supported
Tenet 5: Challenged
A Collaborative Approach to Learning and health
WSCC Model
How can schools implement the approach?

● Assessment beyond academics

● Creating a safe and trusting community
● Well-rounded curriculum
● Creativity in the classroom
● Promote independence and student-led decision
making
 Strategies To Use Right Now

Emphasize learning by Use integrated Provide opportunities

doing and hands on curriculum and shift for group work to
projects to thematic units increase social skills

Build a classroom Facilitate Focus on

where problem understanding of goal responsibility and
solving and critical learning instead of choice
thinking are the norm rote knowledge
 Strategies To Use Right Now

Think about language De-emphasize the use Use balanced

around classroom of textbooks and instruction to respect
expectations include discussion different learning
often styles

Connect to the
community
 Communication

❏ Ask students what is working and what

is not

❏ Be mindful of adjustments
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