In 2003, the Academy for Educational Development (A.E.D.) recommended the full-circle learning model as a promising practice for its capacity to nurture altruistic identities among youth in their formative years, and to help students develop the lifelong habit of service to humanity. For details, visit the Promising Practices in Afterschool site. "…Full-Circle Learning…A fine course of education, developing strong, caring instincts through educational models that pique children’s interests. Extends normal education into the realm of the socially concerned…"

—Jay Bail, in The Book Reader, Summer/Fall, 2002
"…In a skit designed to teach cultural sensitivity, Kahlil, 10 will play the head of a janitorial company that is not paying immigrants the same as their native-born counterparts. Melissa Douglas, 10, will play an immigrant demanding equal pay for equal work. The issue might seem a bit intense for fifth-graders, but at the Children’s Enrichment Program, a non-profit after-school and summer [school] program in Baldwin Hills, today’s lesson is as rudimentary as reading and writing…"

—Sandra Murillo, in the Los Angeles Times, “Pupils Develop ‘Habits of Heart’ During Skits”, Sunday, June 9, 1001
Health for Humanity, a non-profit world health organization has chosen elementary and middle school students from Rancho Sespe families to be recipients of a summer enrichment program. The lessons for this summer school program are based on a portion of the successful “full circle learning” curriculum...The principles behind the program are many and varied but include the assumptions that:

1. With our help, children can create a new world instead of inheriting the problems of the world we leave them.



2. The progress of civilization will depend on our ability to help upcoming generations care not only about short-term survival, but also the long-term sustainability and harmony of the global community for generations to come.



3. The five attributes of full circle learning are: Character Education (habits-of-the-heart); Academic Enrichment; Arts Enrichment; Conflict Resolution; Community Service.

This program has achieved tangible successes in other locations where the children have risen to levels of understanding and confidence as this style of learning promotes accountability and self-discipline while increasing creativity and achievement.

—Jill Lapple, in the Fillmore Herald, “Health for Humanity Brings A Summer Enrichment Program to Rancho Sespe", July 25, 2003