{"id":11260,"date":"2020-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/mental-health-and-wellness-are-key-to-learning\/"},"modified":"2020-03-10T08:29:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T12:29:13","slug":"mental-health-and-wellness-are-key-to-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/mental-health-and-wellness-are-key-to-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health and Wellness Are Key to Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is part 2 of an excerpt and transcript of the Aurora Institute 2019 Symposium opening keynote address, delivered on October 28th by Chan Zuckerberg Director of Whole Child Development Dr. Brooke Stafford-Brizard. In the address, titled Broadening the Definition of Student Success: A Spotlight on Mental Health, she dives deeply into what it could look like to integrate mental health, as one pillar of whole-child development, into schools.\u00a0 In part 1<\/a>, she offered examples of how a school couldBrooke Stafford-Brizard<\/a> create space for the personal growth, connection, and trust that drive academic development. Here in part 2, Dr. Stafford-Brizard presents evidence from multiple branches of science about the connections between mental health, well-being, and learning in students and adults.<\/em><\/p>\n