
For Teachers: New Strategies for a Positive and Happy School
UNESCO’s Happy Schools framework puts twelve criteria behind a word that usually gets used loosely. This week you score your own school against all twelve, then separate what you can change yourself from what you will have to ask for.
About this course
This week you score your own school against an international set of criteria for what makes a school happy, then separate what you can change yourself from what you will have to ask for. Monday — you score your own school against every criterion and mark the three places where it is weakest. Tuesday —…
Methodology
Nothing is designed until the school has been scored against all twelve criteria. Advice that arrives before diagnosis is how wellbeing training ends up being about whichever pillar the trainer likes most.
Every idea in the week is sorted into what you can do yourself, what needs one colleague, and what you would have to ask leadership for. All three are legitimate; confusing them is what makes plans die quietly.
The classroom material — trust-building, codes of conduct, positive-behaviour techniques, movement and outdoor work — is run in the room and taken apart afterwards, rather than described from slides.
What you'll take home
Score your own school against UNESCO's twelve Happy Schools criteria, using this course's simple scoring method, and say, with evidence, which of the four pillars is weakest.
Build a code of conduct with a class rather than for one, and run the trust-building work that makes it hold past the first week.
Choose pedagogies and assessment routines that fit the Process criteria — balanced workload, active learning, flexible ways of showing what has been learned.
Name what your school’s physical and digital spaces are doing to the people in them, and identify the changes that cost nothing.
Separate what you can change alone from what needs agreement, and make the case for one thing in the third column to the person who can actually grant it.
Other dates for this course
- 23–27 Nov 2026 Mersin Planned
- 11–15 Jan 2027 İzmir Planned
- 1–5 Mar 2027 İstanbul Planned
- 15–19 Mar 2027 Bremen Planned
- 26–30 Apr 2027 Budapest Planned
- 3–7 May 2027 İzmir Planned
- 24–28 May 2027 Rome Planned
- 28 Jun – 2 Jul 2027 Mersin Planned
- 6–10 Sep 2027 İzmir Planned
- 18–22 Oct 2027 İstanbul Planned
- 6–10 Dec 2027 Mersin Planned
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