Critical Information

K-12 teachers report the highest burnout rate of all U.S. professions, with more than four out of every 10 teachers noting that they feel burned out "always" or "very often" at work, according to a June 2022 Gallup poll. 

 

Resilience is the Key

Reward your top talent and/or your new hires for participating in this groundbreaking program to improve longevity and scale for the community.

The work of growing our resilience, or Prosilience, can be achieved through the following objectives:

  1. Identifying, understanding, expressing and negotiating our needs. Differentiating needs from wants, fears, impulses or drives, so we can discern acting from reacting.
  2. Learning when we operate out of fear, employing our protective mechanisms, diverting our resources away from getting our wants/needs met, so we can be more intentional.
  3. Building a meaningful support system with relationships that energize us.
  4. Learning how to adapt so we can rebound from adversity, problem solve and preserve energy.
  5. Minimize chronic/acute stress so we can dedicate our resources to meeting our needs. Stress inoculation or building our tolerance for discomfort is key.
  6. Improve our wellness activities so we are efficiently growing our physical health.
  7. Gaining skills/ proficiencies in getting our needs met (or SEL).
  8. Developing tools for organizing, motivating, disciplining and engaging with students for a rewarding teaching/learning environment.
  9. Prioritizing values to guide us during times of duress.
  10. Expand perspective to be more nimble.
Resilience begins with the self, then expands to class and school.
  • SELF
    Through both self-care and educator care, we help making educating fun again. Faculty will feel appreciative of their leadership for investing in their well-being, making your district stand apart from others.
  • STUDENT
    Job satisfaction improves when students are more engaged in learning. Stimulating learning and motivating participation is part of an overall constellation of classroom leadership.
  • SCHOOL
    Scaling nurturing classroom climate and school culture requires appreciation of group dynamics. Faculty who can balance process and content contribute to the health of the organization and enjoy their work.

Two modes for promoting resilience

Synchronous solutions…

The overarching goal of this program is retention. Through stress inoculation, faculty will use our unique Resilience Rubric, to prepare for the challenges of being an educator, causing burnout. Each member will construct a unique Prosilience Plan that helps identify and remediate risk factors, generated in both their personal and professional lives. There are two options:

Option #1 (Trailblazers): Each school identifies faculty with the greatest potential for success. These faculty members are led through a six month program to develop skills to help them become more successful. These faculty members will resonate success, inspiring others to greatness. In the second year, Resilience Advocates (RA's) will learn how to bring this work into their classrooms to promote student success.

Option #2 (New Hires): Faculty in their first two years of employment with the district. Our meetings will occur on the last Tuesday of each month (holiday exceptions), from 2:30-3:15, lasting approximately 45 minutes. During this time, an expert facilitator will guide the group through a combination of content and process, helping form an invaluable support net

 

Asynchronous solutions…

include on-demand video engagements on a range of topics from behavioral health to physical wellness. Faculty (and parents) can learn the rubric for developing greater resilience, to reduce stress and increase longevity. Enjoy a video montage on preventing burnout from our on-demand video engagements.

On-demand virtual engagements

Communication

5 Steps to Improve Any Relationship

Personal and professional relationships can be the difference between happiness and frustration. Take this learning to improve relationships with five easy tools.

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Anxiety Overview

Anxiety affects millions of people in this country and around the world. Anxiety is one of the fastest growing disturbances to our lives, that can be helped simply once we understand it.

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Anxiety Part I: Fear, Worry, Panic

The 2nd in the series, answering the questions, what is anxiety, how does it differ from fear, and what's going on in the body. Determine whether your tension is typical or qualifies as anxiety.

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Anxiety Part II: Fear, Worry, Panic

The 3rd in the series, helping us examine the way anxiety shows up. Worry and panic attacks are explained through the lens of a psychologist treating this issue for 30 years.

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Anxiety Part III: Past or Future Oriented

The 4th in the series. Our anxiety is either focused on the past (ruminative) or the future (anticipatory). Learn your type of anxiety and how it's generated.

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Anxiety Part IV: Process Part A

The 5th in the series. The elements that create and sustain anxiety are essential for reframing this experience as within your control.

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Anxiety Part V: Process Part B

The 6th in the series. The elements that create and sustain anxiety are essential for reframing this experience as within your control. A further exploration.

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Anxiety Part VI: Trapped Energy

The 7th in the series. Anxiety is like shaking an old fashioned soda bottle but keeping the lid on tight, producing trapped energy. Learn more about what happens to this energy.

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Success Stories

Allen Pratt

"Whole School Health Through Psychosocial Emotional Learning highlights the importance of relationships, communication, and compassion for others. It presents a critical view in supporting, training, and retaining teachers through the lens of engaging and modeling behaviors that will help our rural students be better civic leaders and community members. My favorite quote from the book gives credit to the author's upbringing and modeling from his parents: 'We must experience the world through others so we can fully engage in educating all children. My father and mother modeled to me and my siblings how to experience the world through somebody else’s eyes, especially if their outer differences stirred up discomfort or displeasure, enriching all lives involved.' I recommend all leaders, teachers, and stakeholders secure their copy as they prepare for school."

Allen Pratt, Executive Director, National Rural Education Association (NREA)