ABSTRACT
The classroom strategies are engagement, relationships and feeling positive. The school’s emotional wellbeing coordinator or mental health lead can provide training and workshops for the whole staff to introduce this process and to ensure that class teams are implementing the strategies and evaluating their impact. Emotionally Able provides a three-step cyclical process for developing the emotionally supportive classrooms across the school: auditing the present situation, implementing strategies for change and evaluation and repeating the cycle. Schools are busy places and it may not be possible to gain the commitment to introduce Emotionally Able to the whole school at the same time. The class team should retain the “experiential” approach of Laever and his colleagues whereby it is their classroom experience that informs the strategies people use.
