{"id":58,"date":"2018-04-11T15:21:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T19:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-obean\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2018-05-18T03:46:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T07:46:28","slug":"teachers-of-color-as-activists-and-organizers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Holistic Education and School Climate in Phoenix, AZ and Nationally<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_289\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-289\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-289\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2018\/05\/holistic-education-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2018\/05\/holistic-education-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2018\/05\/holistic-education-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2018\/05\/holistic-education-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2018\/05\/holistic-education-624x327.jpg 624w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2018\/05\/holistic-education.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/sea-globe.com\/holistic-education-artifical-intelligence\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Holistic education and school climate are important topics which I believe deserve more attention than they are frequently given. In order to comprehend this national problem in America\u2019s education system, I will provide definitions for both terms and describe a few of the many components related to the problem. As Brett Garvin Grant describes holistic education in his dissertation, holistic education is \u201cboth practical and beautiful\u201d. Holistic education is practical through its ability to \u201csatisfy the intellectual and ecological needs of civil society\u201d and beautiful through its design to \u201cdelight the senses and appeal to the imagination.\u201d<sup>1<\/sup> Alexandra Loukas defines school climate as a \u201cmultidimensional construct that includes physical, social, and academic dimensions.\u201d<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_290\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290\" class=\"wp-image-290\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2018\/05\/Student-wellbeing-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2018\/05\/Student-wellbeing-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2018\/05\/Student-wellbeing-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2018\/05\/Student-wellbeing-768x595.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2018\/05\/Student-wellbeing-1024x794.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2018\/05\/Student-wellbeing-624x484.jpg 624w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2018\/05\/Student-wellbeing.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/blog.verily.com\/2017\/05\/tackling-mental-health-at-verily.html<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Both holistic education and school climate branch over issues such as bullying, student wellbeing, mental health, and school safety. Concepts including whole-child views, mindfulness, and social and emotional learning also factor into the national problem of holistic education. School safety closely works hand to hand with school climate. Without a healthy and safe learning environment, student academic and social success can become difficult.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-mlopezma\/components-of-holistic-education-and-school-climate\/\">COMPONENTS OF HOLISTIC EDUCATION AND SCHOOL CLIMATE<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Grant, B. G. (2014). <em>Holistic Educational Thought in k-12 Education <\/em>(Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Education Database.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>Loukas, A. (2007). NAESP: What is School Climate?. <em>Leadership Compass<\/em>. 5(1), 1-3. Retrieved from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naesp.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/2\/Leadership_Compass\/2007\/LC2007v5n1a4.pdf\">https:\/\/www.naesp.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/2\/Leadership_Compass\/2007\/LC2007v5n1a4.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holistic Education and School Climate in Phoenix, AZ and Nationally Holistic education and school climate are important topics which I believe deserve more attention than they are frequently given. 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