Twenty-sixth International Conference on Learning

Abstract

This workshop is focused on a planning process and framework that could dramatically improve the quality of life that members of the school community experience each day. Participants leave with tools to take back and apply to positively frame their work, shifting how schooling looks in their communities. The content of this workshop is social justice in action. Workshop participants will experience a planning process that they can bring back to their school communities to enhance staff and student well-being. Participants will begin by reflecting on their own well-being and learn about the well-being wheel. They will engage in an appreciative inquiry, reflecting on the current state of well-being in their school community and using that information to plan how they could enhance what is already in place. Participants will then identify indicators of success for the well-being of their community and measurement tools to help them track growth. In conclusion, workshop participants will reflect on the way the well-being wheel framework can provide a guiding framework for the work of schooling.