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FOCUS ON WELLNESS
To combat stress, create a resilient school community
By Victoria E. Romero
Categories: Collaboration, Educator evaluation, Social & emotional learningJune 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted some lessons about the social and emotional needs of people working in habitually stressful environments. To learn how teachers were coping during the early stage of the pandemic, the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence surveyed educators about their most frequent daily emotions. Within three days, 5,000 respondents said they were feeling anxious, fearful, worried, overwhelmed, and sad (Brackett & Cipriano, 2020). This was not a new trend. In 2017, when asked the same questions, 7,000 teachers responded and said their most frequently felt daily emotions were frustrated, overwhelmed, and stressed (Brackett & Baron, 2018). The pandemic only made a stressful job more stressful. Educators begin their careers with compassionate ideals. We are caring people who see ourselves wanting to make
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Victoria E. Romero (building resilientschools@gmail.com) is an author, professional learning facilitator, and manager of the website: building resilienceinstudents.com.
Categories: Collaboration, Educator evaluation, Social & emotional learning
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