{"id":652,"date":"2011-04-19T19:22:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T02:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techtied.net\/?p=652"},"modified":"2011-04-19T19:22:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T02:22:32","slug":"the-middle-grades-zits-braces-and-hormones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"The Middle Grades: Zits, Braces, and Hormones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This piece from ASCD &#8220;The Whole Child&#8221; feed is worth a read:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatworks.wholechildeducation.org\/podcast\/the-middle-grades-zits-braces-and-hormones\/\">The Whole Child Podcast \u00ab Whole Child Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that impresses me the most is the attention to a key belief that I also hold.\u00a0 They accurately reflect on the complexity of the education experience and how this is especially true for the middle grades where &#8220;young people are grappling to figure out who they are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Altogether an inspired look at a wholistic and viable approach.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the policy brief that supports this work:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmsa.org\/portals\/0\/pdf\/research\/Research_from_the_Field\/Policy_Brief_Balfanz.pdf\">http:\/\/www.nmsa.org\/portals\/0\/pdf\/research\/Research_from_the_Field\/Policy_Brief_Balfanz.pdf <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece from ASCD &#8220;The Whole Child&#8221; feed is worth a read: The Whole Child Podcast \u00ab Whole Child Education. The thing that impresses me the most is the attention to a key belief that I also hold.\u00a0 They accurately reflect on the complexity of the education experience and how this is especially true for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimplicity.hopto.org\/techtied\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}