Those building block skills, which disadvantaged kids often don’t have upon entering school, include a variety of social, emotional, ethical, linguistic and physical skills that can be incorporated into the bedrock philosophies of schools. Believing that schools are uniquely situated to foster healthy development, renowned child psychiatrist Dr James P Comer and his colleagues at the Yale School Development Program (SDP) have dedicated 35 years to guiding students, schools, and educators toward academic success along the six developmental pathways of learning. He’s spent decades identifying the educational components that give students a foundation for success. We’ve gone after this problem from the wrong direction for so long.”Ĭomer, the Maurice Falk professor of child psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center, has devoted himself to this work. “It was absolutely what I was looking for,” said Comer, 79, of being named to the presidential commission. For him, it represents another chance to reverse generations of missteps in how we teach kids.
Comer, the Yale University child psychiatrist whose Comer Method has been used in hundreds of schools around the world, recently was named to the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. Comer, M.D. Maurice Falk Professor in the Child Study Center Associate Dean for Student Affairs, School of Medicine. Ben-Avie and Comer describe how Jewish day schools and the Yale Child Study Centers School Development Program (SDP) share a common agenda regarding the aim of.
NEW HAVEN-The man who dared to put parents and child development at the center of America’s educational equation has returned to the national spotlight.ĭr.
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