What About You? Strategies for Supporting Educator Resilience and Trauma-Informed Self-Care
What About You? Strategies for Supporting Educator Resilience and Trauma-Informed Self-Care
April 23, 2020
This first webinar in a new series sponsored by the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders (GTL Center), the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and the National Education Association explores how educators can better prepare themselves to face these challenges by using trauma-informed self-care and resilience-building strategies. Participants had an opportunity to learn directly from two teacher leaders and a licensed mental health clinician. View the recording and access resources shared during the session below.
Webinar Resources
Handout 1: Educator Stress Spectrum (PDF Version): build self-awareness with teacher teams, leadership teams, or as an individual.
Handout 1: Educator Stress Spectrum (Interactive Version):
Handout 2: Educator Resilience and Trauma-Informed Self-Care: Self-Assessment and Planning Tool: identify strategies to provide support where you need it most.
Handout 3: Resources and Bibliography: valuable resources to help focus on self-care and building resilience.
Related Resource: GTL Center's Insights on COVID-19 Resource Page: check out our Supporting Teacher Wellness section.
Presenters
- Louise Smith, National Board Certified Band Director and Teacher Leadership Institute State Coach in Pascagoula-Gautier, Mississippi
- José Luis Vilson, National Board Certified Math Teacher, Executive Director, EduColor, New York, New York
- Kathleen Guarino, Licensed Mental Health Clinician for Trauma-Informed Care at AIR
- Lisa Lachlan, EdD, Director of Strategic Partnerships, GTL Center at AIR
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