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Educator Wellness: A Whole School Approach to Improve Staff Stress and Retention and Student Achievement

This infogrphic illustrates educator wellness, which is the impact of a school’s organizational and individual systems (e.g., culture and climate, employee training and supports, etc.) on staff social, emotional, physical, and mental well-being. This influences staff stress through four main sources that create positive or negative working conditions and ultimately impacts the teaching and learning environment for students.

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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.

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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.

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Developing a Self-Care Plan

To develop your self-care plan, you will identify what you value and need as part of your day-to-day life (maintenance self-care) and the strategies you can employ when or if you face a crisis along the way (emergency self-care). This website has lots of information on caring for ourselves in high-stress jobs, including a self-care plan template you can download.

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Building Resilience Toolkit: Self-Care Guide for All Staff

This information is from the Traimer’s Guide for Staff Self-Care. Each section contains learning objectives to guide your attention to major points in the material. Answering questions for reflection after each section will help assess your progress toward achieving each learning objective. To obtain the maximum benefit from the material, we urge you to write thoughtful responses where they are sought, complete the inventories and lists, and respond to the questions for reflection. The module ends with you creating a custom self-care plan.

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Teachers Are Anxious and Overwhelmed. They Need SEL Now More Than Ever

As research tells us that 85 percent of teachers report that work-life imbalance was affecting their ability to teach and at least 30 percent of teachers leave the profession within their first five years of teaching, this article asserts that educators’ emotions matter for five primary reasons and supports the need for adult SEL.

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Helping Teachers Manage the Weight of Trauma: Understanding and mitigating the effects of secondary traumatic stress for educators

Teachers, counselors, and administrators may recognize the cumulative stressors that they face, but they don’t always realize that their symptoms are a common reaction to working with traumatized children. This article and compiled resources help educators and leaders navigate secondary traumatic stress and burn-out in school staff.

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