Mental Health Awareness Month: Educator Wellness

The U.S. Department of Education’s Best Practices Clearinghouse continues to uplift resources to help the field achieve our common goal of ensuring students’ mental health and well-being. One strategy to support student well-being is to support educator well-being. Supporting the well-being of educators and staff enables them to more successfully meet the needs of their students. We provide the resources below with insights on supporting educator well-being.  

• Sign up for this webinar series: Finding Joy in the “Unprecedented Times” of COVID-19 and Beyond (sessions held on May 14 and May 30) 
• Explore this suite of resources: Understanding Educator Resilience and Developing a Self-Care Plan (Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center)  
• Assess and recommit to strategies in this guide for Addressing Educator Burnout and Demoralization: Actions for Administrators (National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments)
• Dig into what caring for early childhood educators looks like at the individual, program, and systems levels by reading Early Childhood Teachers’ Well-Being: What We Know and Why We Should Care (ZERO to THREE)
• Learn about using multi-tiered systems of support for staff wellness: Building a Culture of Staff Wellness Through Multi-Tiered System of Supports (Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports)

Find information about upcoming events on mental health and other topics on the Best Practices Clearinghouse calendar. Find archived events on this archived events page. Find additional resources including toolkits and reports in the resource library. For additional resources on this week’s theme, search using the keyword “well-being.”

If you are hosting an upcoming virtual webinar open to the public on a mental health topic, or if you have a resource on mental health to share, submit here.