This book explores students' and teachers' well-being from positive psychology and education perspectives and showcases interventions that optimize well-being in the school context. The book also covers crucial positive psychology and education topics/themes including character strengths, gratitude, growth mindset, grit, resilience, positive emotions, and well-being among others. The chapters include reviews and empirical research based on diverse methodologies, such as correlational, experimental, quasi-experimental, intervention, longitudinal, and qualitative approaches from six different Asian sociocultural contexts-Singapore, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Israel, Macau, and Philippines. All the chapters, provide practical pointers for teachers and educators who aim to nurture well-being in schools.

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Dr. Ronnel B. King is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also holds honorary appointments at The Education University of Hong Kong, the University of Macau, and Far Eastern University (Philippines). He is an educational psychologist and the director of the Positive Psychology and Education (PoPE) Lab. He is a top 1% highly-cited author according to Clarivate Analytics and identified as one of the most prolific early career educational psychology researchers in the world. He was recognized as "Rising Star" by the Association for Psychological Science in 2017, and he received the Michael Bond Early Career Award from the Asian Association for Social Psychology in 2019. He is interested in understanding the factors that underpin motivation, well-being, and socio-emotional learning. He has published more than 200 journal articles, chapters, and books in the field of educational psychology and positive psychology/education. Dr. Imelda Santos Caleon is the Assistant Dean for Partnerships at the Office of Education Research and a Senior Education Research Scientist at the Science of Learning in Education Centre, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. Her main research interests are in the areas of positive education, resilience, well-being, and social networks. With a research portfolio of about USD3.9M of competitive grants, she has led several intervention and large-scale longitudinal studies. Her research was published in many peer-reviewed and high-ranking journals including Teaching and Teacher Education, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, International Journal of Science Education, Applied Cognitive Psychology, and Journal of Early Adolescence. Her research findings were also featured several times in the leading broadsheets newspaper in Singapore. She is a founding member of the Singapore Positive Education Network. She is currently an Editorial Board Member of the Educational and Developmental Psychologist. Allan B. I. Bernardo is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. One of his research programs focuses on locus-of-hope and the role of conjoint models of agency in positive goal pursuit in different populations. He has conducted research on different positive psychology and the well-being of students. He has published over 280 articles, chapters, and books/monographs in psychology and education. He was Editor of The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Journal of Social Psychology. He is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries.