being in Your Schools: Describes ways to achieve well-being through social emotional learning-focused activities that promote positive and supportive relationships with colleagues and students. This infographic was developed by REL Pacific and National Center for Education Research for ED’s institute of Education Sciences [IES].
New Provider Self-Care and Online Engagement Products!: Provides a series of one-page exercises detailing self-care techniques, as well as guidance on conducting and facilitating engaging online meetings. These products, offered by SAMHSA’s Addiction Technology Transfer Center [ATTC] Network – though geared towards healthcare providers – are more widely applicable.
8 Strategies to Prevent Teaching Burnout: Offers suggestions from an instructional designer to help teachers cope with the high demands of instruction in the COVID-19 era including on-line and polysynchronous class formats, increased teaching loads, and work-from-home problems. The author asserts that the wide range of newly popular teaching formats — HyFlex, blended, and others — are here to stay. The strategies are offered through the Chronicle of Higher Education to help college faculty regain appropriate work/life balance in the context of whatever mix of online formats they plan to use this semester.
Tips for Supporting Employee Mental Health Toolkit: Offers a new toolkit from Mental Health First Aid [MHFA] at Work to support employees’ mental health during the transition back to in-person work more than a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Principals Are Stressed and Anxious, Especially Now. Here's 10 Things They Can Do: Reports on a discussion among an expert panel for Education Week about strategies that K-12 school principals can use to manage their own anxiety amid the pandemic, to be able to provide sufficient emotional support for their teachers and students.
Educator Self-Assessment for Supporting Student Well-Being: Furnishes an educator self-assessment for supporting student well-being, and an array of trauma-informed strategies to foster student well-being and resilience during the pandemic. Strategies outlined by the Center for Great Teachers and Leaders can be used to support all students, while emphasizing the importance of identifying students who require support that is typically provided through more targeted and intensive mental health interventions. The included Educator Context and Stress Spectrum was designed to support teachers and principals to gain a greater awareness of how their current personal and professional context affects their levels of stress during COVID-19. The self-assessment resource includes a self-care planning tool to help teachers identify areas of strength and growth, and to develop self-care plans.
Sustaining the Well-Being of Healthcare Personnel During Coronavirus and Other Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Explains foreseeable roadblocks for health care professionals (e.g., school nurses, counselors, and social workers) during infectious disease outbreaks and suggests numerous self-care strategies and actions available to professionals whose schedules often require special attention for those in need.
Self-Care Strategies for Educators During the Coronavirus Crisis: Supporting Personal Social and Emotional Well-Being: Introduces practical self-care information for educators on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic facing stressors like school closures, online service provision, and quarantine conditions. This brief, from West-Ed’s Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety [CISELSS], offers practical information and guidance on self-care in these challenging times.
CDC Coronavirus Disease 2019: Manage Anxiety & Stress: Provides explanation and resources to help individuals (parents, caregivers, first responders and other professionals, people with existing mental health challenges) anticipate, prepare for and manage fear, anxiety and extraordinary stress.
Coping with Stress During Infectious Disease Outbreaks (en Español): Provides tips for coping w