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COMMENTARYCOMMENTARYCOMMENTARYThe Evidence base for Improving SchoolOutcomes by Addressing the WholeChild and by Addressing Skillsand Attitudes, Not Just ContentAdele DiamondDepartment of Psychiatry, University of British ColumbiaIf we want the best academic Outcomes , the most efficient and cost-effective route toachieve that is, counterintuitively,notto narrowly focus on academics, but to also ad-dress children s social, emotional, and physical development. Similarly, the best andmost efficient route to physical health is through also addressing emotional, social,and cognitive wellness. Emotional wellness, similarly, depends critically on social,cognitive, and physical must always keep our eyes on the goals of education. If the goal of education isnot simply the memorization of facts, then we must stop focusing on the memori-zation of facts in our assessment measures, for what gets assessed is what gets em-phasized.
Our thinking and our brains suffer if we are lonely or feeling socially isolated, and that is particularly true of executive functions and the prefrontal cortex on
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