The School Wellness Wheel

Trauma and stress among students are high. To effectively address the cognitive, social and emotional repercussions of these experiences, schools need a structure for building expertise in trauma and responsiveness among teachers. In The school wellness wheel: A framework addressing trauma, culture, and mastery to raise student achievement, authors Mike Ruyle, Libby Child and Nancy Dome provide a framework that enables F–12 educators to address student trauma and promote healing and resilience. Teachers and administrators can create a simultaneously safe, supportive and academically rigorous environment by incorporating into their educational practices and procedures the three points on which the school wellness wheel pivots – (1) mastery-based learning, (2) trauma-responsive schooling, and (3) culturally responsive teaching.

With this book, readers will:

• discover how mastery-based learning is closely aligned with trauma-responsive schooling and culturally responsive teaching
• learn how to embody instructional, mindful and ethical leadership
• acquire five steps for implementing the school wellness wheel through either a holistic perspective or a High Reliability Schools™ perspective
• gain advice from educators who have upheld healing and resilience in their schools
• use proficiency scales to assess their school’s ability to create cultures of ownership, mastery, learning, connection, empowerment and humanity.