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Description
Teachers have always needed to know and practice protective strategies in their social emotional first aid kits to manage the daily stressors of working on the front lines of a human-service oriented profession. That need has never been greater given the massive increase in uncertainty and unpredictability in the teaching profession and in one's personal life due to COVID.
In short, teaching is emotional labor-- the effort required to manage and metabolize strong emotions like anger, shame, guilt, anxiety, and overwhelm, as well as generate and stoke positive emotions like joy, hope, and compassion.
Stress significantly diminishes a teacher's capacity to regulate their negative emotions and cultivate positive emotions. Ironically, teachers who leave the profession often cite their inability to cope with their own emotional reactions to loss of control, unpredictability, and lack of purpose in their teaching as the primary reason for burnout.
There are many, many strategies and practices rooted in cognitive and affective neuroscience and social and behavioral sciences that teachers can learn, practice, and integrate into their personal and professional lives as teachers to metabolize stress, manage negative energy, protect themselves from the burnout cycle, and find joy in teaching the whole year through!
Learning Objectives
In this session, teachers will:
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Explore the core elements of the teacher burnout cycle and learn how to protect one's self from the 2 paths to burning out,
Present TeacherTM
Professional Development
Investing in the personhood and holistic mental, social and emotional, and spiritual well-being of your educators is an investment in their professional capital.
Present TeacherTM professional development is strategically aligned with the Five C's of professional capital (Hargreaves & Fullen, Professional Capital, 2012)
*Click on each "C" to find out how!
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Professional Development
Present TeacherTM is an evidence-based professional learning program that draws on best practice in mindfulness, neuroscience, adult SEL, and transformative learning theory to cultivate core capacities of educator mental, emotional, and heart/soul well-being.
OUR MISSION
Provide teachers with strategies, practices, and experiences rooted in mindfulness to deepen self-awareness, equity consciousness, and compassion for self and others so to learn how to adapt to the stressors of a heart-centered profession in a healthy way.
Strategically cultivate habits of mind and humanizing dispositions to remain calm in chaotic teaching moments, see student behavior through the lens of curiosity and compassion, and see the self as capable and confident through the many challenges of teaching.
Engage teachers in exploring the origins of teacher well-being while learning a research-base process to productively "process problems" that commonly arise in teaching so that teachers can actualize their innate calm, resilience, and emotional agility to stage off burnout and realize happiness, joy, passion, and purpose in their teaching practice.
Customizing Your
Teacher Well-Being
Professional Learning
We have offer many different formats, topics, and face-to-face and virtual webinar professional learning experiences to fit your budget, PD schedule, and staff well-being needs and desires!
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Click to explore our keynote, 60-90 minute, 1/2 day, and full day formats for interactive and experiential educator mental and social emotional well-being.
Explore our top rated and highly sought after teacher mental and emotional health topics of focus for keynotes, live webinars & face-to-face offerings!
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Energized Teachers ~ Elevated Teaching
Research confirms that students thrive emotionally, intellectually, and socially in learning environments that are positive, joyful, and happy! Especially during such stressful times, teachers need to know how to strategically cultivate joy, stoke enthusiasm, and "hardwire happiness." For better or for worse, students can read a teacher's presence even through online learning environments....
A calm and quiet mind is a teacher's greatest pedagogical super-power and well-being asset. Teachers who know how to de-escalate their stress response during moments of stress protect their psychological and physiological well-being, and they maintain a clean and clear perspective of the moment so they keep the learning environment stable and centered....
Teacher burnout not only has high financial costs for districts, there is an exceedingly high relational, emotional, human capital, and learning cost. Research confirms that teachers can learn practical strategies to metabolize the stress inherent in the teaching profession as fuel to "burn in" to teaching, and more importantly, use the stress as an invitation to gain greater equity consciousness, self-awareness, and compassion...
The 4 "Musts" of Teacher Mental Health
The Burnout Antidote
Burning IN to Teaching
Teacher Social & Emotional Well-Being
First Aid Kit
Teachers and students will be returning to new school year with more stress, anxiety, and propensity for burnout than ever before. In the aftermath of COVID, our teachers need support in learning how to RESTORE and REVITALIZE their presence and well-being. Teachers will learn fundamental strategies to metabolize the increased stress and uncertainty this new school year brings by building their social/emotional wellness first aid kit so they stay energized, hopeful, creative, and committed the whole year through....
Soul Health &
Social Justice
"Joy is crucial for social change;
joy is crucial for teaching...
a revolutionary spirit that embraces joy, self-care, and love is moving toward wholeness." (Bettina Love, 2019)
The Present Teacher Impact
Since relationships are foundational to good teaching, anti-racist teaching practices, and effective student learning, teachers must become relationship researchers. Core to being a relationship researcher is exploring one's personal SEL development.
The Soul of a Resilient Teacher
No More Moral Injury or Secondary Trauma
Research confirms that one of the most insidious forms of teacher burnout out is moral injury. When teachers feel that their values, passions, and natural talents are not able to be expressed in their teaching, they can quickly experience a soul or "psychic wound" that damages their sense of connection to their students, their very selves, and their calling to teach...
