1st Edition
The Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing A Practical Guide to Getting Started, Best-practice Process and Effective Implementation
The Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing addresses challenges faced by schools wanting to improve wellbeing. While many schools globally now understand the need to promote and protect student wellbeing, they often find themselves stuck – not knowing where to start, what to prioritise, or how to implement whole-school change. This book fills that gap.
This book provides companionship through rich stories from schools around the world that have created wellbeing practices that work for their schools. It guides educators through processes that help create individualised, contextualised school wellbeing plans. With chapters addressing ‘why wellbeing?’, ‘what is "whole school?"’, change dynamics, measurement, staff wellbeing, coaching, cultural responsiveness, and how to build buy-in, it is the first of its kind. Balancing research and practice for each topic with expert practitioner and researcher insights, this book gives schools access to best-practice guidance from around the world in a user-friendly format, designed for busy educators.
What sets the authors apart from the many school wellbeing practitioners globally is their substantial experience working alongside diverse school groups. While many have experience in one school, few work across a multitude of very different schools and clusters, giving these practising academics a unique appreciation for effective, cross-context processes.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Figures, Tables, Boxes, Expert Insights, and Case Studies
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. What Do We Mean By Whole-School?
Chapter 3. Whole-school Wellbeing is Taught: The Explicit Curriculum
Chapter 4. Whole-school Wellbeing is Caught: The Implicit Curriculum
Chapter 5. Understanding Change Dynamics
Chapter 6. Building Ownership
Chapter 7. Choosing a Wellbeing Model for Your School
Chapter 8. Measurement and Evaluation
Chapter 9. The Sandpit Phase
Chapter 10. Building an Effective Team
Chapter 11. Cultural Responsiveness and Wellbeing
Chapter 12. Promoting Educator Wellbeing
Chapter 13. Partnering with Students
Chapter 14. Connecting with Parents, Caregivers and the Wider Community
Chapter 15. Promoting Wellbeing Through Coaching in Schools
Chapter 16. Lessons learned from a Decade of Wellbeing in Education
Biography
Denise M. Quinlan was ‘present at the birth of Positive Education’, training Australian and UK educators with the University of Pennsylvania team. Published academic researcher and creator of a validated student strengths programme, she lectures globally on wellbeing, and hosts Bringing Wellbeing To Life, a popular podcast on wellbeing topics.
Lucy C. Hone is a published academic researcher, International Positive Education Network Global Rep, a best-selling author and contributor to Psychology Today. Trained by thought-leaders in the field at the University of Pennsylvania, she works with a diverse range of schools helping them understand and build wellbeing and resilience.
A highly practical book that provides the most comprehensive overview to date of positive education.
Dr Toni Noble, co-author of the Bounce Back programme
Everyone working in this field would want a copy of this excellent book.
Dr Sue Roffey, Director of Growing Great Schools Worldwide
Lucy Hone and Denise Quinlan, two of the leaders in the world’s positive education field, have written this critical book for all educators (or any person working in a school).
Ryan Niemiec, VIA Institute on Character