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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
The Present Teacher Restoration ProjectTM
is a self-paced, online adult Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and burnout prevention professional development program that focuses on providing our educators and educational caregivers (all staff members working in educational settings) with experiential and evidence-based healing practices in mental health, emotional resilience, and soul health in the school setting.
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We believe that educators and educational caregivers deserve to be supported in their mental health and social and emotional well-being efforts. Compassion fatigue, burnout, and moral injury are very real "costs of caring" in our profession, and we believe providing educators with opportunities to cultivate and understand their own SEL and well-being needs is critical to creating spaces of care for everyone in our schools.
Our well-being is communal and collective. When the adults in the school setting are supported in their mental healthy and social and emotional wellness, that energy of support extends to students, parents, and the greater school community. Adult social and emotional well-being is an educational caregiver's greatest professional asset because adult well-being strengthens relationships with students.
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Research confirms that healthy teacher/student relationships correlate to increased student learning and increased teacher effectiveness and job satisfaction.
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We believe that staff well-being professional development is as critical as all the other forms and types of professional learning experiences we bring to our in-service educators and educational caregivers.
Training Overview
The 4 hour self-paced, online experiential curriculum supports our educators in the practice of metabolizing current stressors as a source of fuel (vs. depletion) to stoke mental health, emotional resilience, self-efficacy, and self-integrity.
Educators engage a series of 8 (30 minute) modules that are customized to be a slow and low dose of weekly skill and inspiration support for the cultivation of the 5 competencies of adult SEL (self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making, relationship skills, and social awareness) and the core competencies of educator well-being (self-awareness, emotional resilience, and unconditional positive regard/compassion).
Module Components
Each 30 minute training module engages the intellect, calms the mind, and restores balance to the body.
15 minute educational training video
10 minute guided restorative mindful movement practice
5 minute guided mental health visualization
Downloadable "Put Into Your Practice" handouts
Experience the Training
Welcome Video
Module 4: Teacher Self-Compassion
Educational Video
Mindful Movement Video
Guided Mental Health Visualization
Put Into Practice Handouts (sample pg. 1)
PURPOSE
Self-Directed Professional Learning
Educators engage a series of (8) self-directed 30 minute modules to build awareness, capacity, and competency in the following areas:
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the origins of healing from toxic stress in the educational setting, ​​
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strategies to manage personal and collective trauma triggered in teaching,
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mind and body practices that restore a teacher's energy and passion to teach,​
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core foundations of Mindfulness, Well-Being, SEL, and Embodied Equity and learn how all these forces of educator wellness intersect,​
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mental health strategies rooted in neuropsychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindful awareness to "re-story" stress and uncertainty to bring equilibrium in the mind and nervous system,
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how social and emotional learning, joy, and well-being are radical acts of social justice and embodied equity in the classroom setting,​
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how to create a sustainable SEL and well-being self-care practice plan that can be engaged throughout the entire academic year!
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Teachers earn 4 clock hours to submit towards their continuing education units.
TEACHER TESTIMONIALS
IMPACT
Teacher Testimonials
This training was a life saver!
Every week I was waiting for it to practice meditation, remind me of my strengths, and manage my energy in the best way possible to survive and find joy in the middle of a pandemic and distance learning- THANK YOU!!
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Minneapolis Public School Educator
Everything I learned in the PTRP can be applied to my teaching and well-being immediately!
I can implement the tools I learned with students, and they would be able to replicate them on their own for their own benefit.
Minneapolis Public School Educator
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I loved going through the PTRP modules!
The PTRP modules affirms everything we feel in a day, week, and year. This training gave me practical wellness tools that helped me with my stress levels, and it also addresses one to be self-reflective and honest in one's teaching practice to bring about more inclusiveness and equity.
1st Grade Teacher
I found the series to be calming, centering, and hopeful!
It was really nice to have short modules that I could complete anytime between my on-line teaching sessions and meetings.
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Elementary Teacher
OUTCOMES
Adult SEL and Mental Resilience
Provide educators and educational caregivers with practices, strategies, and experiences rooted in mindful awareness for the deepening of self-awareness, self-compassion, and emotional resilience so that they can routinely adapt to the stressors of the profession in a functional and flexible way to stave off burnout.​
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Cultivate the 5 core competencies of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) to remain calm in chaotic teaching moments, see student (and peer) behavior through the lens of compassion and curiosity, and leverage stress as opportunities to condition critical consciousness.
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Teach educators and educational caregivers how to strategically access their inner resources of calm, resilience, healing, and joy for counteracting the onset and manifestation of burnout and compassion fatigue while increasing their innate capacity to actualize happiness, passion, and joy in their calling.
Modules
There are (8) 30 minute modules in this 4 hour, online training.
Module 1
Prioritizing Your Well-Being: The Power of Attention, Attitude, and Awareness
Mindfulness Focus: Body Awareness
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Module 2
Banishing Time Stress: The art of managing your energy and not your time
Mindfulness Focus: Breath Awareness
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Taming the Toxic Stress Impact: Learning the art of metabolizing stress
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Mindfulness Focus: Perceptual Awareness ​
Teacher Self-Compassion: Compassionate teachers, calm students
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Mindfulness Focus: Mind Awareness​
Module 5
Teacher Joy!: Joy as a source of health and healing
Mindfulness Focus: Emotions & Interpersonal Mindfulness
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Module 6
Trauma & Teaching: Transforming teacher stress into strength
Mindfulness Focus: Breath Awareness​
Module 7
Teacher Restoration as Social Justice Work: Self-love as a source of racial justice
Mindfulness Focus: Intra-personal Mindfulness & Body Awareness
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Module 8
Establishing Your Well-Being Manifesto: Creating a plan to enact your well-being habits the whole year through
Mindfulness Focus: Body, Mind, and Emotional Awareness
Walk Through the Training Platform: PlayPosit
Investment Cost
District License Pricing
$30,000 per district
*This license is available for an entire academic year (September-June).
*This license is for ALL district staff throughout the entire district.
*Unlimited access to course content (*This means staff can watch and rewatch all videos for the duration of the licensing window)
*A summer license can be added at a reduced extended license rate of $2,000.
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Building License Pricing
$12,000 per school/building site (*up to 250 individuals)
*This license is available for an entire academic year (September-June).
*A summer license can be added at a reduced extended license rate of $1,000.
*This license is available for specific staff at the specific school site.
*Unlimited access to course content (*This means staff can watch and rewatch all videos for the duration of the licensing window)
*Additional district school staff can be added to the building license at the reduced individual rate of $100 per individual.
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Small Group License Pricing
$200 per educator (*up to 30 individuals)
*This license is available for an entire academic year (September-June) or a Summer session (June-August).
*This license is available for small cohorts of school staff who want to engage the training as a group.
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Individual License Pricing
$250 per individual
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County and State License Pricing Available
Connect with Jen about options.
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All License Agreements Include:
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Unlimited access to Present Teacher Restoration ProjectTM online content during licensing window
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Promotional support for district/building prior to launch of licensing window to market opportunity to educators
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Co-develop strategic marketing plan
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Email communication drafting
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Marketing/flyer communication drafting
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Virtual welcome video for district/building distribution​​
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(2) Complimentary 60-90 minute presentation/engagement session with district leadership and/or building administration about the training
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Complimentary Keynote (60-90 minute)
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Monthly (30-45min) check-in meetings with district personnel overseeing the training implementation
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"Impact Data Dives" with Jen​
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Mid-Impact Data Report on educator engagement with training modules
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Final Impact Report on educator engagement
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Tech support with PlayPosit for participants throughout the licensing window
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