Well³ Treasury
Your Toolkit for Action
Once you have identified your goals, the WELL³ Treasury provides possible solutions. This comprehensive database offers a curated selection of evidence-based methods. Find the perfect intervention to meet the specific needs of your school.
Standards Support Net
Students identify a recent small success, turn it into a short “spotlight card,” and share it with a teacher or the clas…
Inclusion in Action: Notice, Invite, Check
Students learn to recognise subtle and visible exclusion and practise a simple Notice–Invite–Check response. Using ficti…
Every Voice Counts: Think, Choose, Build
Students practise an equitable participation routine combining quiet thinking time, choice of contribution mode and resp…
Words with Care: Pause, Phrase, Repair
Students learn to reduce avoidable emotional harm in face-to-face and digital communication. Using the Pause–Phrase–Repa…
Different Views, Shared Respect: The LACE Dialogue
Students learn and practise the LACE dialogue routine—Listen, Ask, Check and Explain—to respond to differing opinions wi…
Connection Lab: Discover, Create, Appreciate
Students experience several safe, choice-based ways of interacting and identify what they personally gain from them: enj…
Support Compass: Notice, Match, Reach Out
Students learn to recognise when support may be useful, match different needs with suitable people or services, and prac…
Capability in Action: Evidence, Strategy, Next Step
Students build realistic confidence by identifying evidence of things they have already learned or managed, tracing the …
My Needs, My Choices: Notice, Choose, Review
Students learn a practical self-care routine: notice signals, identify a possible need, choose a safe and realistic resp…
Before I Choose: Pause, Map, Decide, Review
Students practise a repeatable decision routine using realistic school scenarios: pause, identify options, map likely co…
Reward Well: Recognise, Choose, Savour, Review
Students learn to turn effort, progress and achievement into a healthy celebration rather than relying on one automatic …
Weekly Atmosphere Check-In – A Recurring Pulse Check on Classroom Climate
A short, recurring end-of-week routine in which students briefly signal how the week felt, for example with a thumbs up,…
Class Council
Class council is the grassroots level of school democracy and the only joint meeting where all pupils can actively parti…
TEST TRANSLATION METHOD
BBC (Blackboard Configuration) is a structured classroom method that creates clear routines, shared expectations and pre…
Class Agreement (on Rules)
A collaborative classroom activity in which students sit together in a circle and jointly develop a small set of shared …
Black Board Configuration
BBC (Blackboard Configuration) is a structured classroom method that creates clear routines, shared expectations and pre…
The Invisible Backpack – being part of a group
This lesson lasts around 60 minutes and focuses on encouraging pupils to reflect on ethical dilemmas and discuss them wi…
The Inclusive Seating Blueprint
A teacher-led strategic seating arrangement designed to ensure every student has a designated place in the classroom. Th…
Work Schedule
When you start a new subject with a class, it can be very helpful to use a work plan which you hand out to the studens. …
The Calm Start Routine – A Need-Aware Transition into Learning
A structured beginning-of-lesson ritual where students line up outside the classroom before entering. The teacher uses t…
Progressive Brainstorming
This is an interactive exercise that teachers can use in the class to get the students started and involved in their col…
Talent Festival
A dedicated theme day or afternoon event where every student in a class (or across the school) gets the stage to present…
Value-Vlogging
Students work in small groups to create short, smartphone-based videos (vlogs in the style of Reels/Shorts, max. 90 seco…
Design Thinking light
A structured, collaborative short workshop where students work in teams to analyze real-world challenges in their school…
Compliments Letterbox
A physical or digital mailbox in the classroom where students can drop small, appreciative notes and compliments for the…
Assessment Dialogue Studio
School management explores how assessment practices can move from one-sided judgement toward constructive dialogue. The …
Freedom to Try Lab
School management explores how assessment can become a space for learning, choice, and growth instead of a place where m…
Fairness Lens Studio
School management chooses one fairness-sensitive required standard, identifies where fairness feels unclear or uneven, a…
Failure of the Month
A humorous, voluntary format where team members share a mishap or a pedagogical "stumble." The focus is on the learnin…
Peer Intervision
A structured consultation format where teachers in small groups support each other with professional challenges or diffi…
Values in Action (Storytelling Wall)
An interactive wall in the school building where short, true stories (anecdotes) are shared that demonstrate how a schoo…
Quick Win Board
A visible board in the staff room where small, quickly implementable improvements for daily school life are collected, p…
Secret Colleague / Secret Friend
Each team member (or each student in a class) is anonymously assigned a "secret colleague / secret friend" for a set per…
Backline Lab
School management identifies one demanding leadership situation, maps where backing is needed before, during, and after …
Decision Facilitation Studio
School management works with one real decision process from school life, maps where the process becomes unclear or stall…
Thriving Ecosystem Sprint
School management identifies one area of school life that currently drains energy or blocks collaboration, redesigns it …
Adaptive Leadership Lab
School management analyses one real leadership situation, identifies which leadership approach was used, and explores al…
Leadership Backline Studio
School management identifies one required standard that feels demanding, maps where backing is needed, and designs one c…
Small Wins Spotlight
Students identify a recent small success, turn it into a short “spotlight card,” and share it with a teacher or the clas…
Demand Compass Lab
Students identify one real school demand that feels difficult, map what makes it manageable or overwhelming, and design …
Feedback Upgrade Lab
Students work with real teacher feedback from a recent task, identify what the feedback shows, and choose one personal i…
Feedback-to-Strength Profile
Students analyse recent teacher feedback from a real assignment, identify the strengths it reveals, and turn those stren…
Support Net Studio
Students map moments when school performance feels difficult, identify what kind of teacher support helps them stay conn…
Motivation Quest Lab
Teachers turn one demanding performance task into a self-designed “quest.” They map what energizes them, identify what d…
Workload Navigator Lab
Teachers map moments when performance demands feel high, identify what helps or blocks their coping, and co-design one s…
Teacher Design Jury — The €10,000 Decision Game
Teachers take on the role of a design jury and receive a fixed (simulated or real) budget to improve school premises. Th…
Shared Spaces for Connection
This method focuses on improving or activating common areas in the school where students can meet, talk, and interact wi…
Learning Zones
This method introduces different learning areas within the classroom or school that allow students to choose where they …
Stimulating Learning Spaces
Students explore how classroom design can make learning more stimulating and enjoyable. They reflect on which elements (…
Classroom Co-Design Studio
A structured co-design process where students propose, plan and add small, approved personal or group elements to their …
Safe and Comfortable School Spaces
Students explore the rooms and corridors of their school to identify places where they feel comfortable or insecure. Thr…
Open & Support Circle
The Open & Support Circle is a structured group activity that promotes openness, trust, and mutual support within the sc…
Values Co-Creation Lab
A participatory workshop where students explore school values, reflect on how they fit with their own beliefs, and co-de…
School Event Spotlight
A lightweight, recurring process where students and staff propose, plan and run short, low-cost events that celebrate le…
Student Voice Forum
The Student Voice Forum is a structured activity where students can share ideas and suggestions for class or school acti…
Shared Behaviour Charter
A collaborative process in which students and staff review, co-create and commit to clear, positively-worded behaviour r…
Interdependent Learning Challenge
Students work in interdependent teams where each member receives unique information, skills, or perspectives that are ne…
Digital Wellbeing and Screen Balance Workshop
This workshop on Digital Wellbeing and Screen Balance helps students reflect on their everyday use of digital devices an…
Teacher Collaboration Space Lab
Teachers briefly audit how a collaboration space works in practice, identify what supports or blocks professional exchan…
Reverse Inquiry – The Parent Interview
The teacher switches roles from "informant" to "interviewer." Instead of telling parents what the child is (not) doing…
Competence Reframing
This Competence Reframing Workshop is an interactive workshop for school management and teachers where difficult parent …
The “Personal Twist” on First Contact
Teachers integrate a personal (not private!) facet into their initial meeting with parents (parents' evening/letter). …
The De-escalation Duo (Shadowing)
This method is a safety concept for parent-teacher meetings where teachers are systematically accompanied by a second pe…
The Parents’ Welcome Pack
The Parents' Welcome Pack is a structured information package (analog or digital) that parents receive when their child …
Reverse Mentoring – Parents Teaching Teachers
Reverse Mentoring is designed as a workshop format where parents share their specific knowledge (e.g., on youth trends, …
Walk & Talk – An Active Parent-Teacher Meeting
Instead of holding parent-teacher meetings in the classroom, the conversation takes place during a walk on the school gr…
Parent Expertise Market
A systematic directory of parents' talents, professions, and hobbies. Teachers can easily access this "expert system" …
The Welcome Café
An informal, low-threshold meeting for parents, teachers, and optionally school management and students. It takes plac…
The Positive Message Protocol (3-to-1 Rule)
Teachers commit to systematically sending positive feedback to parents. The goal is to send at least three positive ob…
Values Co-Creation Lab
A participatory workshop where students explore school values, reflect on how they fit with their own beliefs, and co-de…