Whole Child / Learning 2025 Programs

How "Whole Child Education" Is Promoted

Whole child education is promoted as a positive, all-inclusive program for families: "A whole child education prioritizes the full scope of a child’s developmental needs to ensure that every child reaches their fullest potential. A whole child approach understands that students' education and life outcomes are dependent upon their access to safe and welcoming learning environments and rich learning experiences in and out of school."

Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC)

"The education, public health, and school health sectors have each called for greater alignment that includes, integration and collaboration between education leaders and health sectors to improve each child’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development. Public health and education serve the same children, often in the same settings. The Whole School Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model focuses on the child to align the common goals of both sectors to put into action a whole child approach to education."

CDC Linked to Pervasive Curriculum Sweeping Public Schools Nationwide

"The CDC's "Whole Child" approach places its focus on psychological counseling and social services for students and teachers to further the "collaboration between education leaders and health sectors to improve each child’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development," which is often referred to as social emotional learning (SEL)."

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"SEL is advertised as a way to teach students social skills in support of their mental health and emotional wellbeing, but it has been criticized as a way to implement controversial topics like Critical Race Theory and Gender Theory. As a result, it has become a point of contention among parents, teachers and politicians who advocate for a strong academic emphasis at school and against classroom discussions that they feel should be left up to parents' discretion at home."