Video: Prioritizing Self Care for Your Team
Learners will identify 3 key steps they can take to prioritize self care among their school teams and increase the importance of self-care for teachers.
Resource 1: Self Care Matters Part 3 Handout
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Resource 1. Self-Care Matters Part 3: Handout
Activation & Debrief
On a scale of 1-10 how important do you want self-care to be for your teachers?
On a scale of 1-10 how important do your teachers think you want self-care to be for them?
Is there a discrepancy between the two numbers? What do you think the root cause of the discrepancy is?
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Video Reflection
What steps did leaders likely have to take to implement this system? What are they choosing to prioritize? What are they choosing to deprioritize?
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Some Additional Practices for Prioritizing Teacher Self Care
- Build positive culture among staff
- Implement peer mentoring
- Encourage open communication in which teachers have a voice in school level decision making
- Promote overall wellness
- Promote self-care practices among staff
- Engage in staff Circles
- Make the breakroom a sacred space of self-care
- Share self-care resources with staff
- Work with the Coordinated School Health Supervisor in your district to develop a plan that will work for your school’s needs
- Partner with local mental health liaisons and remind staff of health insurance benefits
- Shape America: Support for implementation of employee wellness plan
- Educator Self-Care Assessment
- Headspace Meditation App (free access)
Define and Plan 3 Key Steps
What action will you take? |
When and how will you do it? |
What else do you need to do to make it happen? |
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