This paper provides some of the ’world’s happy school models and offers a set of recommendations that can be made in Vietnam. Through an analytical approach, paper synthesis, the paper draws upon several models along with the specific requirements of each happy school model. Based on the practical conditions of Vietnamese society and education, especially in the context of the implementation of the 2018 general education program, the ’authors’ team proposes a few recommendations to realize the Happy School model in practice gradually. The study found many models of happy schools around the world with specific guidelines and standards that can be developed in our country to raise the level of happiness perceived by students, teachers, and other education forces in the school.