All educators — all school staff — need to see themselves as part of a formal or informal mental health network whose members routinely collaborate to support sound student mental health. But they need to be supported by mental health practitioners and parents to provide the widest possible safety net for students. Martha Staeheli, Ph.D., explains in this Cultivating Resilience Podcast.
Authors of Leading the Rebound Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, and John Hattie discuss how we should draw on the many lessons learned so we can take advantage of this unprecedent moment in time to create better systems for schooling.
Co-authors of The Distance Learning Playbook for School Leaders Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey share 9 tips to use in your next professional learning session.
Listen to author Christine Mason as she explores strategies for addressing student trauma on this Cultivating Resilience podcast.
The causes of student trauma are varied and complex. The cost of lasting trauma is high. It negatively impacts a student’s current mental health, their academic performance, and their long-term ability to be productive citizens.
A roundtable with educators and district leaders sharing their wisdom on mental health and well-being during and after the pandemic. Learn how they are allocating resources to strengthen the resilience of students and further individual and collective self-care in schools.
"Building trust takes time and patience, as well as a common language so people can talk about this construct. Where do we begin?"
Four factors are at the core of developing collective expertise: student equity, instructional coherence, collaborative inquiry, and precision of pedagogy.
"...An approach that is simple in design but complex in execution. It is more than a little messy,...but is an organizational framework that can have a profound impact on student success and educator collective efficacy!"
"Potential is never set in stone; our capacity for curiosity and our thirst for knowledge and new skills should continue until our last day on Earth."
Explore the crosswalk between the PLC+ Framework and the collective efficacy cycles as well as a visual schedule of the Collective Efficacy Cycle in this introduction excerpt from Collaborating Through Collective Efficacy Cycles.
Take the Self-Efficacy Self-Assessment then explore collective efficacy in this excerpt from Collaborating Through Collective Efficacy Cycles.