Introduction: a wish for the good life -- Part 1. Back to whole. What does it mean to educate the whole child? -- Healthy and ready to learn -- Part 2. Promoting a healthy life. Finding our way back to healthy eating: a conversation with David A. Kessler -- A supersize problem -- Sleep: the E-ZZZ intervention -- A place for healthy risk-taking -- Keeping teachers healthy -- Part 3. Protecting students, working with bullies. Bullying: not just a kid thing -- Civility speaks up -- Words can hurt forever -- Fights like a girl -- How we treat one another in schoo -- R U safe? -- Part 4. Helping students cope with life challenges. Success with less stress -- Helping self-harming students -- Reaching the fragile student -- Peers helping peers -- Silence Is Golden -- When a student dies -- Part 5. Teaching values, building character. Democracy at risk -- "Hobo" Is not a respectful word -- No more haves and have-nots -- Waging peace -- Part 6. Creating healthy and safe schools. Centers of hope -- A full-service school fulfills its promise --A coordinated school health plan -- Coordinated school health: getting it all together -- Part 7. Rounding out the curriculum. Teaching strategies for naturalist intelligence -- Teaching strategies for intrapersonal intelligence -- Teaching strategies for bodily-kinesthetic intelligence -- Appendix -- Study guide.