The 2023-2024 Whole Child Awards Award Applications are being accepted until May 31st.
Winners will be announced in early August.
Apply for a Whole Child Award NOW!
As we continue our work in this area, the Advocacy and Influence Co-Chairs will direct our future efforts in promoting a balanced education for each child. This task force developed a program to recognize schools that model Whole Child concepts.
Please consider nominating your school for recognition as a Whole Child School that supports healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged students.
IL ASCD has created an award at the state level to recognize schools that go above and beyond to educate the whole child. The Whole Child Award identifies these schools for not only educating the whole child but for having had success in creating students who are knowledgeable, emotionally and physically healthy, engaged in an inclusive learning environment, and prepared to become lifelong learners. This award salutes those schools that have changed the focus from one of a narrow academic vision to one that promotes the development of the whole child; healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. We invite you to apply for ILASCD’s Whole Child Award.
The Whole Child Award recognizes these schools for not only educating the whole child but for having had success in creating students who are knowledgeable, emotionally and physically healthy, engaged in an inclusive learning environment, and prepared to become lifelong learners. This award recognizes those schools that have changed the focus from one of a narrow academic vision to one that promotes the development of the whole child; healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. We invite you to apply for ILASCD’s Whole Child Award.
For information about what it means to focus on Whole Child education, see descriptions and rubrics.
Launched in 2007, ASCD's Whole Child Initiative is an effort to change the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the long-term development and success of children. IL ASCD supports this premise In 2012, IL ASCD officers and members met with the Illinois Legislature to promote the national organization (ASCD) initiative on Whole Child Education.
The Illinois Legislature declared March to be “Whole Child Month.” Members of IL ASCD advocacy task force continue to keep the names of ASCD and IL ASCD in the minds of Illinois legislators as the go-to organization for learning. Organization members helped to promote the passage of the Whole Child Resolution in Illinois in both houses on March 9, 2012. As the years progress, our members continue to keep in touch with legislators and believe that we have had a say in helping to promote educational issues in our state. Copies of these resolutions can be found below:
Whole Child Senate Resolution SR 0545
Whole Child House Resolution HR 0781
An updated copy of the Whole Child Resolution (HR0196) passed the house in March 2021.
https://legiscan.com/IL/bill/HR0196/2021
ILASCD Whole Child Grading Rubric - Click here to learn more
Nominees need to indicate a plan that is feasible that includes their approaches to a whole child education through collaboration, coordination, and integration of services, and strategies to educate the Whole Child; healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Applications are due on May 31st, 2024.
Thank you very much for your submissions!
Brenda Mendoza
ILASCD Chair of Whole Child Advocacy
Ryan Nevius
ILASCD Executive Director
ILASCD Whole Child Grading Rubric
Congratulations to the 2022 Whole Child School Award Winners
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Overall Winners - Woodland Elementary and Fulton Jr. High |
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Healthy - Yorkville CUSD 115 |
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Safe - Huntley District 158 |
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Supported - James Avant Elementary |
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Engaged - Sacred Heart Schools
Challenged - Downers Grove South |
