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TOOLKIT
Wellness Skills
Introducing RethinkEd’s Wellness Skills Toolkit
To help support the social emotional wellbeing of educators, staff, students and families, we are sharing a curated collection of strategies and resources from our Wellness Solution.
Research shows that Wellness Skills have many positive outcomes including:
- Increasing students’ academic achievement
- Improving students’ prosocial behavior in and out of the classroom
- Providing 21st Century Skills and character development
- Empowering teachers’ self-efficacy
RethinkEd's Wellness Solution supports the development of important wellness skills like stress management, resilience, and empathy, and best practices to help build a safe and affirming culture within your school community. Learn More
To help schools and districts implement Wellness Skills, RethinkEd has three key tips:
Tip 1:
Recognize that educator wellness is inextricably linked to student success.
Research shows that staff outcomes associated with professional development in Wellness include:
- Improved teacher well-being
- Increased teaching efficacy
- Improved student outcomes
- Reduced burnout
Tip 2:
Promote Collective Teacher Efficacy
- Rethink’s Wellness Skills Professional Development empowers teachers to address the challenges they face by examining the dynamics of their unique classroom in professional learning communities.
- Teachers hone their skills in meaningful collaborative spaces by engaging with their students’ work and everyday classroom experiences.
Tip 3:
Create a safe and caring classroom that fosters collaboration and supports academic risk taking.
- Recent developments in cognitive science reveal that students' brains need to feel safe and cared for in order to learn.
- From ensuring the safety and well-being of students by addressing physical and emotional needs, to designing lessons that connect with students and engage their passions, the conditions to access the learning brain are created through the intentional implementation of a safe and caring classroom.
From Rethink’s Grade Level K-12 Self-Management Lessons
Focus
- Focus is a skill that students can practice and grow. Having the ability to focus helps students listen, memorize, reason, solve problems, and make decisions.
- When students practice focus skills, they can improve in how they manage the many distractions demanding their attention and be better able to learn and achieve their goals.
Problem Solving
- Developing the critical thinking skills to solve a problem empowers students to break problems down and view them as challenges to overcome.
- When students have consistent opportunities to practice problem solving through structured activities, they can develop and hone skills that will enable them to work through challenging situations thoughtfully.
Resilience
- Resilience is the ability to adapt and grow in the face of challenging situations. Learning resilience strategies supports students in responding to life’s challenges both in and outside the classroom, by focusing on what they can control, who they can help, and how they can access support.
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