A shocking statistic in education reveals that 70% of K-12 teachers
work under chronic stress. This revolutionary new book explains how
removing stress from the classroom holds the key to improving education.
The book also explains what administrators, teachers, parents, and
communities can do to help accomplish a stress-free classroom.
For years, the expert voices said "disengagement" was the crucial issue
behind poor educational environments and results. Naturally, only
massive reform could fix it. But what if the enormous restructuring and
expenditures attacked the wrong problem?
MindShift, an organization that reframes tired and clogged
conversations, pushed the old conclusions off the table and started
fresh. They gathered diverse leaders in education, leadership,
neuroscience, architecture, and wellness in working forums around the
nation. These pivotal meetings produced WHOLE, a game-changing
approach to education. This book captures the story and details of how
the system can be remade for real and lasting benefits to everyone.
With the authors' expertise, the book exposes the exhausted and
antiquated thinking that led to the present crisis. But, WHOLE also
proposes a new era of disruptive change that can produce happier,
healthier, and more successful education for the 21st
century. The book introduces the outliers, tells the stories, and
presents the roadmaps to:
- Why teachers should be seen as high-performance athletes, requiring
time for recovery and preparation
- How schools can become "field hospitals," combining learning with
healing
- Why space matters, how redesigning and refurnishing schools can
eliminate stress and produce learning environments that are more open
and inviting
- Ways to properly integrate schools within communities, building honest
relationships, increasing social capital, and achieving transparency
that increases success
Packed with real-life examples, new research, and solutions that you can
introduce to your own schools, students, and communities, WHOLE shows
us how to move schools from the age of stress and insecurity to an age
of true educational flourishing.
