![]() ![]() The principal provides education credibility to almost any initiative they champion, and as such, most school teams buy-in.” How do we do this? As my colleague Alyssa Gallagher and I wrote earlier this year, “Principals have the power to set the tone and establish a new order of business in a school. How we interact, how we react and how we support one another.Īnd while everyone in the school setting, from students, to staff, to families, influences the culture and climate, the person, or persons, who influence our school cultures the most are our school leaders. This is reflective of how we-the adults-treat each other. But we have more influence over the Group and consequently our culture and climate at the school. Sean Slade, 2021.Īs educators, or in fact as anyone who works with children and youth, we have less impact over our System-the scheduling, supports, time for collaboration, funding, duties, responsibilities and accountability systems. ![]() We give most attention to the Self but we must place more attention onto the Group and eventually the System. We must target the group interactions and focus on our school cultures, and then we must address the underlying causes. Not only is the effect temporary but it butts up too often against unsupportive environments and unresponsive systems. If we only focus on self-care, we only affect the top of what I’ve coined the Wellbeing Pyramid. Collaboratively, we must start to address the systems that we have helped foster that have caused much of the stress in the first place. We must improve the environments that educators find themselves in everyday and at a minimum decrease the stress and increase the supports available in that setting. We must stop expecting educators to save themselves and instead start to address the group climate and culture of our schools. We can safely assume that those new to the profession are exhausted too. I don’t know how others who might be in less than ideal situations are handling it.” Larry Felazzo, the award-winning teacher who writes a popular education blog and a teacher advice column, recently wrote, “I teach in an almost ideal situation and I’m exhausted after just the first month of this year. For many educators, being asked to “find time for themselves” is both impossible and, in itself, stress inducing when finding time is not a real option.įor more on the future of learning, check out the weekly EdSurge Podcast, wherever you listen. No doubt these strategies are helpful in addressing the wound, but they do little to nothing to address the cause. Basically, it’s up to you to save yourself. 3 in 4 heads see staff in tears this termīut the only solutions we are presented revolve around “self-care,” i.e., rest, relaxation, meditation, physical activity and yoga. ![]()
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