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May 30, 2025

Building Strong Foundations: A Haitian Mother’s Journey of Empowerment with the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child

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May 28, 2025

Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child Releases Five-Year Review of Research, Learning, and Global Impact

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May 8, 2025

Haitian Leaders and Global Partners Gather at Notre Dame to Reimagine Education in Haiti

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November 13, 2020

Young Readers Week 2020

During the week of November 9th, the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) celebrates National Young Readers Week. The week is a yearly event that was co-founded in 1989 by Pizza Hut and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. One of the goals of the GC-DWC is to...

USAID ACE Haiti Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child

November 5, 2020

USAID awards $8 million to Notre Dame to expand early literacy, learning programs

Recognizing the impact of the University of Notre Dame’s efforts to improve childhood literacy in Haiti, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded an $8 million grant to the University to expand its early-grade literacy and social-emotional learning programs and improve early...

Marie Irmine -Teacher participant in Read Haiti teacher training program

October 28, 2020

A Different Approach to Teacher Development and Training

The Read Haiti teacher training program is made possible through the support of USAID, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and an Anonymous Foundation. Program materials were developed by USAID in partnership with Haiti’s Ministry of Education. Meet Marie Irmine, a first grade teacher from Centre Educatif...

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September 23, 2020

Education in Crisis: Can COVID-19 help bridge the Digital Divide?

At its peak, school closures due to COVID-19 occurred in 191 countries, affecting nearly 1.6 billion students and 63 million teachers ( UNESCO 2020 ). While these numbers are unprecedented, large-scale school closures are not. Every year, nearly 75 million children experience disruptions in their...

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September 22, 2020

Measuring what Matters Learning Partnership: Happiness Curriculum

Today the Measuring what Matters Learning Partnership welcomed Dr. Sr e ehari Ravindranath, the Associate Director for Research and Impact at Dream a Dream , to present on India’s Happiness Curriculum. The Happiness Curriculum strives to support learners in developing self-awareness and mindfulness...

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September 2, 2020

Research from GC-DWC Featured in Miami Herald Article on Schools in Haiti

A recent article in the Miami Herald features research from the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child as it discusses how classrooms in Haiti remain empty because teachers are refusing to come to work over back pay and poor working conditions amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. Read...

Patricia Cabrerizo, Research Associate, Latin American Projects

August 31, 2020

The Challenges and Opportunities of SEL Research: Be prepared to listen.

For the past year, Patricia Cabrerizo has been engaging in a study, led by the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child and in partnership with UNESCO’s Horizontes program, on understanding local perceptions of social and emotional skills in rural communities of two regions in Peru...

August 27, 2020

But what about the mothers?

The group of women sat in the quiet courtyard, six feet apart, and looked around in silence: some avoided eye contact, while others did their best to catch another’s eye, trying to gauge the energy in the room and who would speak first. We had just watched a screening of a parenting video that shows...

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August 24, 2020

Notre Dame receives $40 million federal award to improve global education outcomes

The University of Notre Dame’s Pulte Institute for Global Development — together with the Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI) and its Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child — has won a $40 million cooperative agreement to lead a five-year program to advance U.S. Agency for...

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August 12, 2020

Study published on causes of family separation and barriers to reunification for Syrian refugees

The Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child is pleased to announce the publication of Hannah Chandler and Dr. Neil Boothby’s manuscript, “ Causes of family separation and barriers to reunification: Syrian refugees in Jordan” in the Journal of Refugee Studies . Additionally, we are...