As educators continue to be pushed to their limits during another challenging school year, teachers often set aside their own well-being to support their students’ social, emotional, and academic needs. Yet research shows that teacher wellness contributes to a stable, positive and equitable school culture. A teacher’s sense of well-being supports how they cope with on-the-job challenges, and influences job retention.

In this eight-week online course, Dr. Laura Lee Summers shares strategies for wellness through a lens of eight dimensions to support personal well-being. Participants in this course will investigate each of these dimensions through collaborative live sessions, reflective discussions, and self-selected activities. Participants will take steps towards implementing self-care plan of action that supports their well-being for the rest of year and beyond, and can use learned self-care strategies to support the social and emotional well-being of colleagues and/or students.  

8 Dimension of Teacher Wellness opens February 18, with the first live learning session on March 1.