Why We Need to Focus on Educator Mental Health and Well-being

Teacher well-being and mental health are being talked about more and more as the topic of teacher burnout and retention issues continue to be top of mind. Even before the pandemic 93% of teachers experience overwhelming levels of stress.
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While mental health and well-being are important for every person regardless of what field they work in, many studies have set out to prove the correlation between teachers who are more stressed out and student stress and overall achievement levels.
So if we aren't supporting teachers emotional learning, overall well-being, and alleviating burnout then we are not supporting student social-emotional learning and academic achievement.
Additionally, if you look at the data of teacher retention you will see that not focusing on teacher well-being and overall job satisfaction costs schools in the United States roughly 7 billion dollars a year spent on the recruitment and training of new teachers.
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Happy Teacher Revolution is a Baltimore-born, international movement with the mission to organize and conduct support groups for teachers in the field of mental health and wellness to increase teacher happiness, retention, and professional sustainability. This session will explore caregiver burnout, vicarious trauma, the importance of self-care in the field of education, and the necessity for teachers to feel empowered to claim happiness as their own as a ‘best practice’ to help students.
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Education Elements is a Scholarus learning company and we believe that schools grow when people grow. We work with school districts and their communities to co-develop strategic approaches to complex questions. We take the time to understand the unique challenges school leaders face, and then customize the Education Elements approach for each district. Education Elements has worked with hundreds of districts across the country to use and apply responsive practices and tools across classrooms (virtual, hybrid, and in-person), leaders, teams, and organizations to better meet student needs. We bring deep expertise, design thinking, expert facilitation, and an extensive toolkit of resources to deliver sustainable results.
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