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Unlock Your Path to Educator Well-Being!

Are you ready to transform your well-being and elevate your vocational practice? Discover a compelling Framework for Educator Well-Being that empowers you to nourish your own well-being through thoughts and actions that are within your realm of control, enhancing well-being without taking on extraneous responsibilites.

Additonally, explore the Self-Reflection Check In free resource based on teh Framework for Educator Well-being. Use this check in to recognize strengths and identify opportunities for growth.

These comprehensive resources can be used individually or as a tool to identify collective strengths and growth opportunities for a school staff, easily indicating potential action steps or goals for school performance plans. Don’t miss out on this chance to enhance your well-being and support the well-being of your colleagues and students.

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Start With the Heart: Igniting Hope in Schools Through Social and Emotional Learning

Start with the heart to build a school climate in which achievement will flourish.

In this easy-to-read, inspiring book, educational consultant and former high school principal Michelle Trujillo shows how positive school culture is anchored in social and emotional learning as a way of being. She guides educators to explore their own SEL aptitudes, inspires schoolwide investment in a philosophy of connection, and offers ample tools, strategies, and solutions for integrating five SEL competencies into schools. Jumpstart conscientious connections in your school community and create a foundation for trust that allows students and educators to feel appreciated, effective, and productive.

Teaching and Learning in the Face of Adversity: Strategies That Inspire

Adversity is all around us. Although we can′t always avoid it, we can prepare ourselves and our students to respond in a healthy and hopeful way.

Teaching and Learning in the Face of Adversity is a practical and heartfelt book that empowers educators with applicable strategies to respond to challenges, inspire students, and foster a positive school environment. The authors share the critical skills that educators and students can cultivate to elevate the ability to respond to barriers, challenges, and setbacks, plus:

  • Practical strategies, insights, and reflection prompts
  • Menus of practices to promote student agency, belonging, relationships, and repair harm
  • The voices of real teachers, students, and educational leaders
  • The range of challenges that can arise in our work and effective ways to respond

Adversity may be ever-present, but with the resources in this book, we can empower ourselves, our colleagues, and our students to persevere in the face of it.

Social Emotional Well-Being for Educators

Learn how to take self-care off your to-do list!
It’s been a rough couple of years for teachers and school leaders. Your ability to be resilient and concentrate on social-emotional learning has been put to the test and now you deserve relief—without the pressure of having yet one more thing piled on your plate.

This book’s unique and compelling framework empowers you to practice self-care through thoughts and actions that are within your control, enhancing your well-being without taking on extraneous responsibilities. Features include:

  • A checklist for determining your baseline of strengths and needs
  • Self-reflection questions, journaling opportunities, and action-planning exemplars
  • A process for tracking, celebrating, and revising your own tangible objectives
  • Teaching guidance for distance or hybrid education
    Strategies to share with your students

It’s right there in the word: well-being! It isn’t a thing to do, but a way to be. When you integrate the principles of SEL into your everyday life, you’ll be a person of joy, peace, and gratitude — and a more inspired and empowered educator.

Articles By Michelle Trujillo

Three Reminders for Educators in the Face of Adversity!
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Take Self-Care Off Your To-Do List
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Strategies to Support Educator Wellbeing and Resiliency
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Hope for the Holidays!
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