Health and Well-being
Strategies, samples, and ideas to sustain a sense of community among all independent school constituents—students, families, faculty and staff, and leaders—and to ensure their health and well-being.
Strategies, samples, and ideas to sustain a sense of community among all independent school constituents—students, families, faculty and staff, and leaders—and to ensure their health and well-being.
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Faculty Morale in a Challenging Year
A simple question recently ignited a torrent of responses: What are schools doing to support faculty morale this fall? Independent school leaders responded with an outpouring of concern and sympathy for teachers. While some offered concrete steps schools can take to ease the burden teachers carry this fall, most respondents were also looking for answers […]
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How to improve teacher mental health: understanding and reducing teacher stress
Teaching is one of the most valuable and important jobs out there, but it can also be one of the most stressful. Striking a balance between teaching, lesson planning, marking homework and counseling students can be challenging for many teachers. Stress is inevitable, but it’s essential to learn how to improve teachers’ mental health to […]
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Learning at Home: How to reduce stress and motivate children to learn from home.
The events of the past few months are presenting many people with new and diverse challenges. At the same time, they also encourage us to rethink our behavioral perspectives. Thanks to the home office countless professionals can continue their work outside of the typical office, and companies can be saved. But that also means that […]
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Video: Benefits of Standing, by Dr. Dieter Breithecker
Join Dr. Dieter Breithecker and VS America to learn how important it is for students and adults to stand throughout the day, and how to integrate standing regularly into our daily behavior. Standing desks are opportunities for us all to get out of the sitting trap. Dr. Dieter Breithecker is a Health and Kinetics Scientist […]
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Understanding student trauma and trauma-Informed teaching
Buzzwords like trauma-informed practice and trauma-informed teaching are increasingly common when discussing what’s important in today’s classroom. But just how common is student trauma and why does it matter at school? One study found that 60% of adults have experienced abuse or other difficult family circumstances during childhood and 26% of kids in the US […]
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Veracross “Thank You” Video
From the team at Veracross, we just wanted to say THANK YOU for everything you did this past spring to care for your students!
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Caring for the Caretakers in a Crisis
After talking with leaders at more than 35 independent schools, Carney, Sandoe & Associates Search Consultant Marsha Little shares ideas on how to support faculty and staff as they support their students through the pandemic and beyond.