With the Whole Child in Mind: Insights from the Comer School Development Program Smokey Dalton and encouraging scholars of both

and encouraging scholars of both traditions to work together

of mixed tribal blood by her mother and French-Canadian father

Dramatically converted from a life of licentiousness to one of wholehearted devotion to Christ

I realize he was as much a victim of his behaviors as she was

With the Whole Child in Mind: Insights from the Comer School Development Program Smokey Dalton and encouraging scholars of bothAmong the many models of school reform that have emerged in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, one has endured for more than 50 years: the School Development Program (SDP). Established in 1968 by renowned child psychiatrist James P. Comer and the Yale Child Study Center, the SDP is grounded in the belief that successful schooling particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds must focus on the whole child. With that in mind, the SDP