Impacts Of The Four Pillars Of Wellbeing Curriculum: A 3-Year Pilot Study

The Four Pillars of Wellbeing is a social and emotional learning curriculum that promotes mindfulness, community, self-curiosity, and contentment in schools. Promising evidence for the potential impact of the Four Pillars of Wellbeing was 1st presented in a pilot study that measured the program's initial Year 1 outcomes at a kindergarten to 8th-grade private school. Prior to this analysis, teachers at the pilot school had been using this curriculum for 3 years and had completed comprehensive, end-of-year assessments on 10 well-being outcomes originally assessed in our first pilot study in 2018. After 3 years of implementation, teachers showed schoolwide increases in contentment, self-compassion, and teacher efficacy and decreases in teacher burnout compared to Year 1 baseline assessments. We also measured classroom implementation fidelity and found evidence that the extent to which teachers engaged in the Four Pillars of Wellbeing was significantly associated with increases in self-compassion and psychological well-being and decreases in burnout. Future directions and limitations of this follow-up study are also discussed.