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Article

School Renewal and School Well-Being: A Case Study

by
Jianping Shen
1,*,
John Lane
2,
Patricia Reeves
1,
Siche Feng
1 and
Xin Ma
3
1
Department of Educational Leadership, Research and Technology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA
2
Office of K-12 Outreach, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
3
Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
*
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Educ. Sci. 2026, 16(6), 978; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16060978
Submission received: 20 April 2026 / Revised: 8 June 2026 / Accepted: 11 June 2026 / Published: 19 June 2026
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Examining Leadership in Connection to Welcoming and Belonging in Schools)
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Abstract

In this longitudinal case study, we examined school well-being during the change process. We operationalized the change process as the school renewal model and viewed school well-being from the perspective of the PERMA (positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment) model. We found that all elements of the PERMA model were manifested in the school renewal process and that the school renewal process was not dominated solely by conflict and tension, as the literature typically suggests about the change process. The findings of the study suggest the possibility of reframing tension as productive rather than detrimental in the school renewal context. This study also advances the construct of school well-being as an organizational property.
Keywords: school renewal; school well-being; implementation integrity; the PERMA model school renewal; school well-being; implementation integrity; the PERMA model

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Shen, J.; Lane, J.; Reeves, P.; Feng, S.; Ma, X. School Renewal and School Well-Being: A Case Study. Educ. Sci. 2026, 16, 978. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16060978

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Shen J, Lane J, Reeves P, Feng S, Ma X. School Renewal and School Well-Being: A Case Study. Education Sciences. 2026; 16(6):978. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16060978

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Shen, Jianping, John Lane, Patricia Reeves, Siche Feng, and Xin Ma. 2026. "School Renewal and School Well-Being: A Case Study" Education Sciences 16, no. 6: 978. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16060978

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Shen, J., Lane, J., Reeves, P., Feng, S., & Ma, X. (2026). School Renewal and School Well-Being: A Case Study. Education Sciences, 16(6), 978. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16060978

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