From Stress to Success: Co-designing School Wellbeing Solutions

Students reflect on and share the challenges they face at school, then listen to their partner class describe their struggles in a recorded video or forum post. Together, they identify common themes and differences in how school affects students emotionally and socially.

Students create a visual map showing which students are affected by each school struggle, how the challenge impacts them, and what emotions or social effects it causes. They compare their map with their partner class's map to spot local and global patterns.

Students work in small groups to turn each school struggle into a 'How might we...' question that opens up creative problem-solving. They brainstorm ideas, then exchange their questions and ideas with the partner class asynchronously to gather fresh perspectives and build on each other's thinking.

Students join a live video call with their partner class to present their top solution ideas, listen to the partner class's ideas, ask questions, and together decide on one or two shared solutions to develop further. They discuss feasibility, impact, and how the solution aligns with student well-being and rights.

Students work together to design a detailed, step-by-step action plan for their chosen solution, including who will do what, when, and how success will be measured. They create a prototype, poster, or written proposal showing the plan and test it with feedback from peers and teachers.

Students create a final, polished version of their shared Wellbeing Toolkit (as a simple guide, poster, or digital document) and present it to their school community, explaining which strategies came from their own research and which came from their international partners. They reflect on how working together across borders made their toolkit stronger.

Students from both classes share photos, journal entries, and observations about how their toolkit ideas are working in their own schools. They give each other specific, kind feedback on what's helping students feel less stressed and suggest tweaks to make the toolkit even better.