MedStar Resource Library
The MedStarWISE resources page offers various tools and materials to promote wellness and improve work environments for healthcare professionals. It also includes a resource library and educator wellbeing workbook
Staff Well-being
Is Your School Using Toxic Positivity To Exploit You? The 5 Biggest Red Flags
There are a lot of ways to improve teachers’ lives, and not all of them are things a principal has control over. But one thing that every school can do regardless of their budget is crack down on toxic positivity. This article describes what is meant by “Toxic posivitiy” and what harm it can do.
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Illinois Affinity Group Facilitators
Helping educators of Color to create safe, supportive, and transformative spaces through affinity groups
How to Promote Collective K-12 Staff Well-Being in 2024
This article explores how to identify teacher burnout and promote collective K-12 staff well-being to increase professional retention and student achievement.
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Healing-Centered Schools: Teachers as Leaders
This resource includes slides from presentation about Healing Centered Schools, whichi provdes an overview of this concept and how to start planning for implmentation.
Healing-Centered Environments Fill gaps in Educator Wellness
This article asks the question: how we can get better at cultivating the well-being of our people? This educator writes about looking to healing-centered environments to fill gaps in educator wellness.
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Guided Imagery
Guided imagery is a relaxation technique that involves dwelling on a positive mental image or scene. It is a tool that students and school staff can learn and use at any time. Check out this free guided imagery app that is offered in 28 languages and 330 different animation combinations.
Educator Self-Care Resources
Individual self-care planning involves identifying and incorporating specific self-care strategies for promoting resilience and maintaining a healthy work–life balance (e.g., exercise, good nutrition, supportive networks). Individual self-care plans involve scheduling restorative activities, recognizing personal triggers, and planning an action response that supports well-being. Compiled resources include links to local and national resources and tools for educators, including a Compassion Resilince Toolit for Schools.
Educator Wellness Webinars
This 4-session recorded webinar series includes handouts and resources on educator well-being and to support educators tap into their resiliency skills, increase self-compassion, create self-care routines, build a practice of gratitude and appreciation and celebrate – even those small successes – to support wellbeing.
Distress Tolerance and Soothing Exercises
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, is a structured CBT-type of therapy that focuses on teaching four core skills (mindfulness, acceptance & distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness) to help you create a good life for yourself. You work on those skills through a series of lessons and then start applying them to your life. This site provides free learning and resources around DBT’s core skills.