School Personnel Well-Being: Advancing Measurement, Best Practices, and Policy-Section 1: The Role of Context and Competence in Educator Well-Being

This special issue of School Psychology is focused on promoting scholarship on school personnel well-being and safety as well as systemic factors that can be leveraged to make schools healthier places for all. This includes understanding social-ecological factors related to educator sense of personal safety and wellness, as well as focusing on school psychologists' role in promoting adaptive school environments. In this introduction to the special issue, we provide a synthesis of nine articles that capture the role of context and competence in educator well-being. Next, we reflect on what we learned from these studies about theories, measures, methods, and models related to educator well-being. We conclude with recommendations for future research directions. Impact and Implications This special issue promotes scholarship on school personnel well-being, safety, and systemic factors that can be leveraged to make schools healthier places for all.