Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child

What Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child does

The Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child (CRTWC) is a U.S. nonprofit organization founded in 2009 and based in San Jose, California, fiscally sponsored by Community Initiatives. With a team of approximately five, CRTWC partners with teacher educators, K-12 school districts, county offices of education, and state education agencies to transform how educators are prepared and supported. Its core thesis is that educators' own social and emotional competencies must be developed in order for them to reach and teach the whole child — a positioning that distinguishes CRTWC from student-focused SEL program vendors.

Name

Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child

Legal name

Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child

Website

https://crtwc.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child is a 5-person nonprofit that partners with teacher educators and school districts to integrate social and emotional learning into educator preparation via its Anchor Competencies Framework.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educator Professional Development Services

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310), Other Schools and Instruction (6116)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Teacher Professional Development & In-Service Training Institutes (EDAHAFAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Regional Education Service Agencies (ESAs/BOCES/Intermediate Units) (EDADABAC), Public Career & Technical Education (CTE) Centers & Programs (EDAJAAAJ)

Keywords

• Social emotional learning
• Educator professional development
• Teacher preparation programs
• Whole child education
• SEL framework consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Not specified

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Professional Development Services: Year-long professional learning institutes and training programs for teacher educators and education leaders
2. Grant Funding: Awarded grants from foundations to support educator preparation initiatives

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

CRTWC partners with teacher educators, school districts, county offices, and university teacher preparation programs to deliver year-long professional learning institutes and training grounded in its Anchor Competencies Framework. The organization sells access to the seven-competency SEL framework along with multi-day institutes that help institutions integrate whole-educator and whole-child approaches into teacher preparation curricula.

Product overview

The Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child offers a unified portfolio of educational products and services centered on its Anchor Competencies Framework. The core offering is the Framework itself—a holistic approach to educator development that defines seven social and emotional competencies. Supporting the Framework are the Teacher Educator Institute (multi-day professional learning sessions) and Year-Long Professional Learning Institutes for faculty. The organization also publishes the book 'Teaching with a Social, Emotional, and Cultural Lens.' Together, these offerings provide a comprehensive system for transforming teacher preparation and development through whole-child and whole-educator approaches.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Anchor Competencies Framework: The guiding framework of CRTWC that serves as a roadmap for helping teacher educators, education leaders, and teachers to develop a holistic approach to teaching and learning, focusing on developing whole educators to ensure they are equipped to reach and teach the whole student.

Products and services

• Anchor Competencies Framework A guiding framework that defines seven social and emotional competencies along with suggested teacher moves and teaching strategies, serving as a roadmap for teacher educators, education leaders, and teachers to develop a holistic approach to teaching and learning.
• Year-Long Professional Learning Institutes Extended professional development programs designed for faculty from teacher education programs across the country to deepen their understanding of the Anchor Competencies Framework and support program-level integration into their teacher preparation curricula.
• Teacher Educator Institute A multi-day professional learning institute designed to deepen participants' understanding of the Anchor Competencies Framework and support its integration into teacher education programs. Held in Minneapolis, MN in May 2024.
• Teaching with a Social, Emotional, and Cultural Lens (Book) A co-authored book that provides a framework describing practices for integrating social, emotional, and cultural lenses into educator preparation and K-12 classroom instruction, with illustrative examples from real classrooms.

Quantifiable outcome

• Framework used to inform creation of new state standards for Educator Preparation Programs in Oregon
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCRTWC partners with Notre Dame de Namur University and Edthena to advance new approaches to coaching in teacher preparation, developing innovative methods for supporting pre-service educators.
• EdthenasupportingTechnology or IntegrationTechnology partner in the coaching initiative with Notre Dame de Namur University, providing platform support for new approaches to coaching in teacher preparation.
• Community InitiativescoreOthersFiscal sponsor of Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child, providing administrative and organizational support as a nonprofit fiscal sponsor.
• National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerCRTWC leaders helped shape a new Classroom Management Framework from NCTQ, contributing expertise to national education quality initiatives.
• CASELsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerCRTWC references and aligns with CASEL's work on social and emotional learning, highlighting their Educators' SEL Landscape Analysis.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• TNTP (The New Teacher Project): TNTP is a national nonprofit that works with school districts and states on teacher recruitment, development, and policy. TNTP's educator preparation and development work overlaps with CRTWC's university and district partnerships, though at much larger scale.
• CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning): CASEL is the leading national organization advancing SEL research, policy, and practice across K-12 systems. CRTWC directly references and aligns with CASEL's Educators' SEL Landscape Analysis, making CASEL a direct thought-leadership peer operating in the same SEL ecosystem with broader scope.
• Aspen Institute Education & Society Program: The Aspen Institute's Education & Society Program works on national education policy and practice, including teacher preparation and SEL-aligned initiatives. It is a comparable thought-leadership peer that operates nationally on educator preparation policy.
• WestEd: WestEd is one of the largest nonprofit education research and service agencies, providing professional development, research, and technical assistance to schools and states. WestEd's educator development and SEL-adjacent work makes it a comparable broad player in CRTWC's category.

Direct peers

• New Teacher Center (NTC): New Teacher Center provides mentoring, coaching, and professional development to support new teachers and educator preparation programs. NTC's focus on teacher induction and educator development closely parallels CRTWC's work with teacher education programs and ongoing professional learning.
• Learning Forward: Learning Forward is a national professional association dedicated to advancing effective professional learning for educators. CRTWC competes with and complements Learning Forward's offerings around year-long professional learning institutes for teacher educators and school districts.
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards: National Board certifies accomplished teachers and influences standards for educator preparation and development nationally. CRTWC's work on state Educator Preparation Program standards places it in adjacent territory with NBPTS's standards-setting and teacher quality mission.
• Teaching Channel (by AACTE): Teaching Channel provides professional development videos, courses, and resources for educators and is closely tied to AACTE (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education). Its work with teacher education programs and professional learning is directly comparable to CRTWC's offerings.

Emerging players

• Edthena: Edthena is a video coaching platform used in teacher preparation programs and is an active technology partner of CRTWC in the Notre Dame de Namur University coaching initiative. Edthena's technology-enabled coaching for preservice educators directly intersects with CRTWC's framework.

Regional players

• Core Education Solutions (CORE Districts): CORE Districts is a California-based collaboration of large urban school districts focused on shared measures of school performance and equity, including SEL and whole child measures. Its California focus and district collaboration model overlap with CRTWC's Bay Area district engagement.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles1 record

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