Leadership comes with its unique set of challenges, and prioritizing mental health is a cornerstone of effective management. Explore a diverse range of resources offered to foster resilience, stress management, and thoughtful decision-making at your school.
Mental Health Resources
- Headspace offers free subscriptions to teachers? This is an excellent resource for your staff.
- McKinsey & Company Report (2023): K–12 teachers are quitting. What would make them stay?
- Surgeon General Report on Workplace Mental Health & Well-being (2022)
- Professional Quality of Life Website
- Book: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk
- Poland and Associates Window of Tolerance Playlist
- SchoolSafety.gov Mental Health Resources
- CDC Children’s Mental Health
- CDC Mental Health
- School Connectedness
- Teen Mental Health
- Resources for Coping After Emergencies
- School-Based Physical Activity Improves the Social and Emotional Climate for Learning
- School Nutrition and the Social and Emotional Climate and Learning
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Preventing Teacher Burnout and Supporting Mental Health at Your School
Understanding Burnout: More Than Just Stress Let’s begin by addressing burnout, a pervasive issue in the educational landscape. Burnout isn’t about “feeling stressed at work; it’s a chronic condition characterized by the perception that demands outweigh available resources. Many causes of burnout can be traced back to work conditions and the workplace environment. School leaders […]
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6 Steps for Creating Safe School Spaces for LGBTQIA+ Students
The Need for Safe Spaces For LGBTQIA+ Students The numbers say it all: students who identify as LGBTQIA+ are twice as likely to experience harassment, such as name-calling and verbal and physical abuse than their non-LGBTQIA+ classmates, and according to Mental Health America, they are four times more likely to take their own lives. LGBTQIA+ […]
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Tuesday Tips: Teacher Mental Health with Caroline Poland
In this session, licensed mental health professional Caroline Poland joined us to answer questions on supporting teachers. She gave tips for supporting teacher mental health and well-being, including understanding the neurological aspects of trauma, practicing active listening, and fostering a positive school culture. Join the experts as they answer all your questions live on Tuesdays […]
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How School Leaders Can Support Mental Health
Now more than ever, school leaders are acutely aware of the mental health challenges facing students and their families, teachers and administrators, and themselves. Here’s just one stat from Mental Health in Schools | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness: “One in six U.S. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year, and half of all mental […]
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