Building Blocks for Learning
A framework for the development of skills children need for success in school and beyond.
Building Blocks for Learning is a framework for the development of skills children need for success in school and beyond. Each element represents a set of evidence-based skills and mindsets that have been proven by research to strongly correlate to, and even predict, academic achievement. The framework draws from research in multiple fields to suggest movement from lower-order to higher-order skills. Overall, it provides a rigorous perspective on what it means to intentionally teach the whole child—to develop the social, emotional, motivational and cognitive skills in every learner. Turnaround for Children, now the Center for Whole Child Design at Arizona State University, offers the building blocks framework as a contribution to a vital collaborative endeavor to deepen and transform K-12 education.
