The Anxious Classroom
Vital Everyday Strategies for Teachers to Help Children 4-11 Thrive
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Anxiety is one of the biggest challenges facing children in education today, cited as one of the main reasons children do not attend school. While many books help teachers understand mental health, few focus on anxiety - which school staff feel they know the least about.
Emma Connor offers a compassionate, practical toolkit for supporting anxious children in school. Drawing on over 20 years of experience, she combines attachment theory, neuroscience, and effective strategies that fit naturally into everyday teaching.
Warm, grounded, and deeply respectful of educators, this book empowers every member of the school community to build emotional safety, strengthen relationships, and create classrooms where children can truly thrive.
Emma Connor offers a compassionate, practical toolkit for supporting anxious children in school. Drawing on over 20 years of experience, she combines attachment theory, neuroscience, and effective strategies that fit naturally into everyday teaching.
Warm, grounded, and deeply respectful of educators, this book empowers every member of the school community to build emotional safety, strengthen relationships, and create classrooms where children can truly thrive.
- Published: Sep 21 2026
- Pages: 224
- ISBN: 9781805018018
Press Reviews
Kate Silverton
author of the Sunday Times best-selling parenting books There’s No Such Thing as ‘Naughty' and There’s Still No Such Thing as ‘Naughty'The Anxious Classroom is a book that is deeply grounded in compassion, neuroscience and attachment. Full of practical wisdom, it reframes anxiety not as behaviour to be managed, but as communication to be understood. This is a book that will change the way schools see children - and the way children experience school.
Marcia Eckerd
Ph.D. Therapist, consultant, and international author and lecturer on neurodiversityThe Anxious Classroom combines deep insight into childhood anxiety-now at epidemic levels in schools-with practical, classroom-ready tools, offering clear strategies teachers can use right away/practical takeaways teachers can use right away.
Camilla Sim
Course Director, Institute for Arts in Therapy & EducationEmma Connor writes with clarity and compassion, offering insights that are both deeply thoughtful and refreshingly practical. With warmth and wisdom, she turns complex ideas into simple suggestions that work.
Tamsin Cottis
Author of 'How it Feels to be You' (Karnac 2021)Grounded in relevant, accessible psychotherapeutic theory, this book is full of invaluable information. It will empower teachers and other school staff to better understand the ways in which a child's experiences and emotions can become an obstacle to their learning in school. Emma offers a multitude of practical ideas for supporting children when feelings of anxiety become overwhelming. Significant issues, including Separation Anxiety, The Power of Empathy, Neurodivergence and Exam-related Anxiety, are addressed chapter by chapter. Each chapter includes a number of clearly explained, achievable and creative activities to support the anxious child and help ease classroom stress. Every teacher should invest in this book!
Sarah Fisher
Founder and CEO of Connective FamilyEmma's expert guidance beautifully bridges neuroscience with heartfelt connection. It offers school staff a compassionate roadmap and easy, practical strategies to support anxious students, ensuring every classroom can become a safe, regulated harbour where children truly thrive.