Give The Gift Of Wellness To Ourselves And Each Other

FOCUS ON WELLNESS

Give the gift of wellness to ourselves and each other

By Heather Lageman

Categories: Collaboration, Social & emotional learning

This magazine’s Focus on Wellness series has covered many important topics, including teacher burnout, healing-centered environments, resilient school communities, teacher wellness, and principals’ well-being. As we wrap up the series, I want to focus on the connection among all of these topics, which is also the foundational connection among all of us: our shared humanity. Wellness is about tapping into who we are and who we can become as human beings. It comes from within us and ripples out in all of our relationships. Developing wellness starts with three processes grounded in that humanity: knowing ourselves, listening to each other, and connecting. As the executive director of organizational development & leadership at Baltimore County Public Schools in Maryland, I am deeply invested in those processes,

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Heather Lageman

Executive Director of Organizational Development and Leadership at Baltimore County Public Schools | + posts

Heather Lageman serves as the Executive Director of Organizational Development and Leadership for Baltimore County Public Schools. Prior, she served as the director of curriculum for the Maryland State Department of Education, and managed statewide implementation of the Teacher Induction Program. During Race to the Top, she served as Race to the Top Local Education Agency director for Maryland and managed both programmatic and fiscal aspects of district projects.