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Healing-centered environments fill gaps in educator wellness

By Jacobē Bell
April 2023
In a climate where teachers are leaving the profession due to fatigue, burnout, and lack of support, education systems need to do more to promote teachers’ well-being than the typical wellness week events like massages and catered lunches. They need to go deeper because there is no quick fix to the stresses and challenges educators face. To foster well-being at a deeper level, we can take inspiration from a question commonly asked in improvement science: How do we get better at getting better (Bryk et al., 2015)? This question is usually about performance, efficiency, or effectiveness. But we also need to ask: How we can get better at cultivating the well-being of our people? I believe this starts with creating a healing-centered environment and way

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Education systems need to do more to promote teachers’ well-being than the typical wellness week events. There is no quick fix to the stresses and challenges educators face.

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Acosta, A. (2020, July 31). Contemplative science and practice through a healing-centered perspective [Video]. The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI5NLZrvpv8

Bryk, A., Gomez, L.M., Grunow, A., & LeMahieu, P.G. (2015). Learning to improve: How America’s schools can get better at getting better. Harvard Education Press.

Garcia, A. (2019). A call for healing teachers: Loss, ideological unraveling, and the healing gap. Schools, 16(1), 64-83. doi.org/10.1086/702839

Ginwright, S. (2018). The future of healing: Shifting from trauma informed care to healing centered engagement. bit.ly/3ZEWTzE

Hammond, Z. (2014). Culturally responsive teaching and the brain. Corwin.


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Jacobē Bell (jbell@teachingmatters.org) is a network director at Teaching Matters.


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