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Science of Learning and Development Alliance Design Principles for School Planning Tool for Developing a System of Thriving and Learning.
This Planning Tool is to guide how you explore what is necessary to realize equitable, whole-child design. It will help you reflect, invest, and reallocate resources to create equitable, transformative learning environments— environments that will fully support young people in achieving their full potential as they expand their knowledge, formulate their own identities, and build agency over themselves and their learning experiences. The Planning Tool is for applying the Guiding Principles for Equitable Whole Child Design.
Equity-Centered Thriving
Thriving and equity are dynamically interdependent, cumulative, and culturally influenced. Our capacity to address one depends on our capacity to address the other. Interventions and decisions, however, often focus on one outcome, apply to one system, are timed for quick impact, and ignore cumulative effects. This is because conceptualizations, especially in the global North and in much of the global South, treat thriving and equity in a delimited, segmented, disciplinary-specific, ahistorical, culturally evasive, linear, individualist, and reductionist manner.
This paper synthesizes scholarship across multiple disciplines and review work from indigenous scholars and community-responsive researchers and practitioners. We present expansive definitions of thriving and equity separately and in their context-dependent and dynamically interdependent wholeness. We introduce robustness into our conceptualizations of both. We further address the collective, interpersonal, and intrapersonal processes and structures that contribute to or undermine thriving and equity, contrasting expansive and narrower definitions. We summarize key points that underlie both terms and use these definitions to examine the factors and conditions that promote or constrain thriving and equity.
Thriving, Robust Equity, and Transformative Learning & Development
The report co-authored with Karen Pittman, Jill Young, Hal Smith, Deborah Moroney, and Merita Irby, explores the interconnected concepts of thriving, equity, and learning and development to enhance youth success emphasizing the need for integrated approaches that address social factors influencing learning, thriving, and equity.
