The Ultimate Guide to Implementing Wellbeing Programmes for School

This is an essential guide for all teaching professionals to help them make an informed decision about what wellbeing programmes and initiatives they should select in their schools and why. It provides teachers and school leaders with all necessary knowledge to help identify what they should be looking for in wellbeing programmes, how they should be evaluating its effectiveness and who should be delivering it for them. It presents a suite of components and evidence-based interventions that teachers can pick-and-choose for their school community.

For the first time, practitioners are not being sold a specific programme but instead presented with what is known about wellbeing in order to empower them to make their own decisions that best suit their community. It goes behind the scenes and reveals the secrets used by researchers and experts, including practical advice, recommendations and the author's own ground-breaking research study involving 3,000 students. Its unique pick-and-mix process demystifies programme creation, simplifies it and makes its building blocks available to the masses.

This accessible, evidence-based guide suggests a whole-school approach with specific interventions that can be used to successfully improve the wellbeing of teachers and students, making it an invaluable resource and must-read for all teaching professionals.

Jolanta Burke, Ph.D. is a chartered educational psychologist with the British Psychological Society, and assistant professor and researcher in Maynooth University, where she teaches wellbeing for Master’s in Education and Master’s in Educational Leadership and Management. For her work on wellbeing, she was acknowledged by the Irish Times as one of 30 people in Ireland who make it a better place. For more information, visit www.jolantaburke.com.