Lea Waters er professor på University of Melbourne i Australien og er en af de førende forskere indenfor feltet.

I artiklen "A Review of School-Based Positive Psychology Interventions" skriver hun: "Indeed, research evidence is now mounting to show that student wellbeing is positively related to academic performance. For example, a meta-analysis by Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, and Schellinger (2011) of 213 studies involving 270,034 students from kindergarten through high school showed that, on average, school students enrolled in a social and emotional learning program ranked 11 percentage points higher on achievement tests than school students who did not participate in such programs."

Så trivselsindsatsen skal selvfølgelig begrundes i, at børn og unge mennesker skal trives og finde ud af, hvordan de bringer sig selv i trivsel, men du vil som lærer, pædagog, skoleleder eller skolechef også skrue på andre knapper, der øger deres akademiske præstationer; glade børn lærer bedst!

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