This timely resource for teachers, leaders, and policymakers provides
breakthrough insights into how to improve students' well-being in
schools.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, students' well-being was an
increasingly prominent concern among educators, as issues related to
mental health, global crises, and social media became impossible to
ignore. But what, exactly, is well-being? What does it look like, why is
it so important, and what can school systems do to promote it? How does
it relate to student achievement and social and emotional learning?
World-renowned education experts Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley
answer these questions and more in this in-depth exploration of the
underlying ideas and research findings related to well-being, coupled
with examples of policies and implementations from around the globe. The
authors make the case for putting well-being ahead of other priorities,
such as scores on high-stakes assessments, and explain the three
powerful forces that educators can leverage to set up effective
well-being policy and practice: prosperity for all, ethical technology
use, and restorative nature.
Inspiring, thoughtful, and provocative, Well-Being in Schools: Three
Forces That Will Uplift Your Students in a Volatile World offers hope
in a time of unprecedented challenges. Looking within and beyond the
classroom, it charts a path toward a lofty but achievable goal: improved
well-being not only for students but also for society as a whole.
