Mentoring for Wellbeing in Schools

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This volume of the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Perspectives on Mentoring </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Series explores the role of mentoring in promoting wellbeing of both mentees or protégés and mentors in K-12 school settings. At its core mentoring is about helping advising supporting and guiding mentees and protégés to gain a wide variety of skills abilities and/or attributes. Another outcome of mentoring less often discussed is the positive impact it can have on the mental health and wellbeing of both the mentor and mentee. Of particular interest for this edited volume is how mentoring can promote mental health build resilience and develop capacity to maintain and sustain emotional psychological and social wellbeing for all in the K-12 school settings. The notion of wellbeing in general includes both hedonic aspects of feeling good (positive emotions) and eudemonic (conducive to happiness) aspects of living well that entail experiences of positive relationships meaningfulness in life and work senses of mastery and personal growth autonomy and achievement.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This edited volume expands and adds to the existing literature on mentoring in schools by offering a collection of works that examine the connection between mentorship and wellbeing. This volume includes chapters that describe effective mentoring for wellbeing detail positive approaches to mentoring youth offer recommendations for growing the wellbeing of pre-service teachers early career teachers and mid-late career teachers illustrate approaches to growing a community of educators through mentoring and developing teacher leaders as agents of change and facilitators of wellbeing and discuss studies and models for nurturing and promoting wellbeing among and through school leaders in national and international settings. Through these chapters authors advocate for greater attention to how to support and nurture wellbeing as central to mentorship efforts in K-12 school settings.</span></p><p> </p>