Sabre Cherkowski is associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia
Keith Walker is professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Saskatchewan
This book provides a view of well-being in schools from a range of theoretical and practical perspectives. Contributors from academic, field-based and community roles in education offer insights from their research and practice to describe what it means for teachers, administrators and students to flourish in schools.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Ways Forward with Flourishing in Schools, Sabre Cherkowski and Keith Walker
Section I: Flourishing in Schools
Chapter 2: Care in Educational Leadership: Developing Capacities and Skills for Looking In and Looking Out, Sarah Shepherd
Chapter 3: Flourishing in all Seasons: Thriving in Discomfort and Uncertainty, Jennifer Watt
Chapter 4: What Would it Take to Bring Joy Back into the Lives of Teachers and Students?, Kathryn Hibbert, Susan Rodger, Peter Bates, Karen Hellerman, Mary Ott, and Maggie Rodger
Chapter 5: A Comprehensive Health Approach within Flourishing Schools, Stephen Berg, Brent Bradford, and Daniel B. Robinson
Chapter 6: The Impact of Positive School Climate on Student Wellbeing and Achievement, Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Don Klinger, and Alicia Hussain
Chapter 7: Learning is Our Moral Imperative: My Prairie Spirit Classroom, Lori Jeschke, Reagan Olson, and Bob Bayles
Section II: Students' Flourishing in Schools
Chapter 8: Assessing Student Well-Being and Well-Becoming: Accounting for Student Voice, Thomas Falkenberg
Chapter 9: Critical Factors for Youth Thriving: The ARC Model, Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Jeffrey MacCormack, Nishad Khanna, Stoney McCart, and John Freeman
Chapter 10: The Dream: Community Service Learning for all Students, Roberta Campbell-Chudoba
Chapter 11: Co-Curricular Inquiry: Knowledge-Building for Well-Being, Margaret Macintyre-Latta with Julian Kaftan
Chapter 12: Growing Community One Play at a Time: How an Experimental Theatre Project led to Flourishing, Rebecca Stroud Stasel
Chapter 13: Physical Literacy and Flourishing (within) Canadian School Communities, Daniel B. Robinson, Elizabeth J. Durden-Myers, and Stephen Berg
Section III: Teachers' Flourishing in Schools
Chapter 14: Four Research Learnings in Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Philosophy: An Essay about Helping Teachers and Students Flourish, Jim Parsons
Chapter 15: The Journey Toward a Sustainable, Site-specific Wellbeing Education Subject, Louise Sullivan
Chapter 16: Building a Well-Being Plan for Teachers, Lynn Hiscoe
Chapter 17: Supporting Rural Beginning Teacher Flourishing: A Mentorship Approach Tracy Dollansky, Lynn Lemisko, and Laurie-Ann Hellesten
Section IV: School Administrators' Flourishing in Schools
Chapter 18: Ontario Principals' and Vice-Principals' Well-Being and Coping Strategies in the Context of Work Intensification, Fei Wang, Katina Pollock and David Cameron Hauseman
Chapter 20: Flourishing through Self-Care-One School's Case Study, Karine Veldhoevn
Chapter 21: Flourishing School Communities in Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey, Ingrid Robinson and Denise Toney
Chapter 21: Growing the Potential of Flourishing Schools through Graduate Education Leadership Programs, Vicki Squires
Chapter 22: Purposeful Hiring Practices and Leadership Development: The Prairie Spirit Way, Bob Bayles, Roberta Campbell-Chudoba, and Noel Roche
Chapter 23: Development of the Leading with Heart Program, Amy Burns
Chapter 24: Stories from Three Flourishing Jamaican Primary Schools, Wilfred Beckford
Chapter 25: Flourishing in Vibrant Schools, Davis Clement, Megan Tschannen-Moran, and Ufuk Erdogan
Chapter 26: Epilogue: Concluding Remarks, Keith Walker and Sabre Cherkowski