Preschool and school are not just places for learning facts. They are spaces where children discover who they are, how to live with others, and how to believe in themselves. Because while knowledge fills the mind, it is character, connection, and purpose that help a young person truly flourish.

Education systems often measure what’s easy—tests—while sidelining what’s essential: wellbeing. Yet the evidence is simple: students learn better when they feel better, and so do teachers.

What do young people truly need from us? First of all, they need relationships that are warm, structured, and consistent. Relationships in which they are given love, support, encouragement, expectations, boundaries, consequences, and the power of adult example.

The PERMA model captures the foundations of a flourishing life. Each pillar matters, and together they form a balanced path to resilience, motivation, and fulfillment. In education, this shift is transformative: when students feel safe, valued, and purposeful, attention improves, curiosity deepens, and academic growth accelerates.

When positive psychology steps into the classroom and brings the science of well-being, strengths, and resilience into teaching and learning, it becomes positive education. Positive education help schools nurture not only knowledge and skills, expanding education beyond academic achievement to include well-being, resilience, and character.

Wellbeing isn’t a waiting room; it’s a practice. It's built moment by moment as a result of tiny, daily actions for Relationships, Positive Emotions, Engagement, Meaning, and Accomplishment that lead to better relationships, more hope, more focus, clearer purpose, and steady progress.