Turnaround for Children

Research and development: students who used the well-being index, designed and developed by Turnaround, reported they enjoyed reflecting on their feeling and functioning through the self-assessment and felt more self-aware and safer in schools as a result. Educators reported that they appreciated the tool as a conversation starter between teachers and students, where students could share freely without judgment. Building educator capacity: educators reported that their experiences in Turnaround's professional learning offerings would improve their practices, that they would recommend Turnaround's services to their colleagues, and that they would be interested in deepening or continuing their learning by exploring more tools and resources intended to enhance their knowledge in the science of learning and development and whole-child design.mobilizing the educational ecosystem: Turnaround worked to create the conditions for whole-child education to take root nationwide, reaching audiences across the nation with tools and resources to support adoption and implementation of whole-child design by way of webinars, blogs, academic publications and reports, magazine articles, conference sessions, podcasts, presentations to associations and national organizations, multimedia campaigns, and through participation in coalitions, task forces, and other collaborative partnerships. Turnaround's founder and senior science advisor pamela cantor, m.d. Testified on social and emotional learning and whole-child approaches in k-12 education to the u.s. house appropriations committee.