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Wellness Calculator

WellSteps created a series of research-based return on investment (ROI) calculators to help estimate the effect of well-designed wellness programs on health care costs, absenteeism, and presenteeism. Each of the three ROI calculators will examine a different employee expense. A well-designed wellness program is one that changes the health behaviors of employees, spouses, and dependents, thus lowering health risks, reducing chronic disease, and helping worksites create a culture of health. The design of the WellSteps wellness solution was based on this body of evidence

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School Employee Wellness Toolkit

This quick-start toolkit is provided as a supplement to Healthy School, Healthy Staff, Healthy Students: A Guide to Improving School Employee Wellness, is designed to increase the capacity of district and school staff in addressing school employee wellness, to improve the health of all school employees, and to improve student health and academic outcomes.

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Promoting Mental Health & Well-Being in Schools: An Action Guide for School and District Leaders: Presentation Slides

Check out the companion “Getting Started” guide to help with your action planning, designed for school administrators in kindergarten through 12th grade schools (K-12), including principals and leaders of school-based student support teams, to identify evidence-based strategies, approaches, and practices that can positively influence students’ mental health.

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Promoting Mental Health & Well-Being in Schools: An Action Guide for School and District Leaders: Getting Started

Check out the companion “Getting Started” guide to help with your action planning, designed for school administrators in kindergarten through 12th grade schools (K-12), including principals and leaders of school-based student support teams, to identify evidence-based strategies, approaches, and practices that can positively influence students’ mental health.

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Promoting Mental Health & Well-Being in Schools: An Action Guide for School and District Leaders

This action guide was designed for school administrators in kindergarten through 12th grade schools (K-12), including principals and leaders of school-based student support teams, to identify evidence-based strategies, approaches, and practices that can positively influence students’ mental health.

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Collective Care Planning Worksheet

To create a culture of support, connection, and collective care among teachers and administrators that fosters overall well-being, reduces burnout, and enhances resilience within the school community. This worksheet helps schools plan for caring for teachers’ and staff well-being with actionable steps and accountability.

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HR Toolkit for Racial Equity

This resource comes from W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s work that includes recommended tools and resources for implementing racial equity strategies as part of a human resources function. This resource can be valuable to human resources and culture and equity professionals. It may also be useful to any leader doing internal organizational transformation work in school communities.

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Hexagon Tool for Evidence-Based Practices

Hexagon Tool is a tool for selecting Evidence-Based Practices during the Exploration Stage; earn how to identify the need for organization as well and root cause of that need, determine potential options and their relevant information, evaluate the fit and feasibility of the options, and finally to use the information gathered during the hexagon process to inform implementation planning.

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Connecting Schoolwide SEL with Other School-Based Frameworks

Some of the most common frameworks for organizing student supports are Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). Adopting schoolwide SEL does not mean that a school must abandon these existing frameworks. Rather, schoolwide SEL offers an opportunity to enhance or refine existing systems of support. This guide from CASEL defines Schoolwide SEL, MTSS, and PBIS, then describes how these frameworks can align with and complement one another.

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Leaning In and Leading Out to Renew: Navigating Lived Polycrisis School Leadership

This guidebook comes out of 10 interviews with school leaders from Arizona, Southern California, and Northern California. Interviewees, from mental health counselors to HR directors to state leads of suicide prevention. The guide is divided into two parts: Part One “Leaning In: The Gifts and Challenges that Lived-Polycrisis School Leadership Evokes; and Part Two “Leading Out: Practices for Navigating Toward Recovery & Renewal, which offers guidance for school crisis leadership beyond immediate crisis response, through recovery, and toward renewal.

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