title: The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model: a new approach for improving educational attainment and healthy development for students.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Whole Child approach and the coordinated school health (CSH) approach both address the physical and emotional needs of students. However, a unified approach acceptable to both the health and education communities is needed to assure that students are healthy and ready to learn.
  
  
  METHODS
  During spring 2013, the ASCD (formerly known as the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened experts from the field of education and health to discuss lessons learned from implementation of the CSH and Whole Child approaches and to explore the development of a new model that would incorporate the knowledge gained through implementation to date.
  
  
  RESULTS
  As a result of multiple discussions and review, the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) approach was developed. The WSCC approach builds upon the traditional CSH model and ASCD's Whole Child approach to learning and promotes greater alignment between health and educational outcomes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  By focusing on children and youth as students, addressing critical education and health outcomes, organizing collaborative actions and initiatives that support students, and strongly engaging community resources, the WSCC approach offers important opportunities that will improve educational attainment and healthy development for students.
authors.affiliation: Constituent Services, ASCD, 1703 N. Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311. tlewalle@ascd.org.
authors.forename: Theresa C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Lewallen
authors.affiliation: School Health Branch, Division of Population Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30341-3717. HHunt@cdc.gov.
authors.forename: Holly
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.affiliation: Program Development and Services Branch, Division of Adolescent and School Health, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS-E75, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027. wpottsdatema@cdc.gov.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Potts-Datema
authors.affiliation: Division of Adolescent and School Health, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS-E75, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027. szaza@cdc.gov.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zaza
authors.affiliation: Division of Population Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30341-3717. HGiles@cdc.gov.
authors.forename: Wayne
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Giles
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000067697:Adolescent Health; D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D002648:Child; D000067576:Child Health; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003376:Counseling; D006266:Health Education; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D017145:Models, Educational; D009043:Motor Activity; D016272:Occupational Health; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012572:School Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012574:Schools; D012944:Social Support; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D013334:Students; D014481:United States
keywords: coordinated school health; health and academics; school health; whole child