“Happy Schools is not something separate. It is already there, in each lessons, each poems we teach. Happy Schools helps me bring the depth to the existing content, to my literature lesson plan. Now, when I teach ‘Letter from the Native American Leader” and other excerpts, which are highlighting the environmental challenges, my students and me can together question and reflect on our current ego- centered approach”

“As a school admin, I learn a much more persuasive and inspring way to work with co- workers and to resolve conflicts; we also identified the core values upon which our team is built. I can feel such a family-like atmospheree in our school.

Teachers solve classroom challenges more effectively. They also share, in a much calmer and more compassionate manner, about the 'tough' kids in the inclusive classes and cases in which they have to deal with challenging parents. Our teacher council is united and inter-dependent; we are highly responsible toward our students, thus their parents and the local government highly appriciate and deeply trust us.“

“When the students are happy at school, their parents are also more at peace. I think this happiness is the result of my consistent attempt to integrate social emotion learning into our teaching.”