Thrive24

Target Audience: Adminstrators, Teachers PK-5, Teachers 6-8 Teachers 9-12

Many educators are dealing with high levels of anxiety, stress, fear, and worry, and leaders are increasingly navigating issues of low teacher retention and recruitment. This session is designed to create an exchange of effective practices to support educator wellbeing, resulting in higher retention, healthy outcomes for educators, and better role modeling of wellbeing practices for students. The session is guided by a framework informed by the socio-ecological model, which stipulates that educator wellbeing requires promoting practices across three levels of care organized in concentric circles: self-care, relational care, and a safe and supportive working environment. We will introduce this framework to participants, and share effective practices for each of these three concentric circles. We will then invite participants to share effective practices from their schools, organized around these three levels of care. In addition, throughout the session, facilitators will engage participants in experiences and activities of self-care and relational care. Participants will walk away with new practices they can implement in their everyday lives. We will work with participants to develop an individualized, coordinated, and comprehensive approach to educator wellbeing that touches on all three levels of support for themselves as educators.