The mental health and wellbeing of a school environment can greatly affect teaching and student outcomes. Schools need to reflect upon the wellbeing of both teachers and students when assessing what strategies can be implemented. These practical tools and insights from industry experts provide advice on building a more mindful approach to wellbeing.
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Video: How to Weave Wellbeing into Your Classroom
Hear from Alison Waterhouse, an educator practitioner with over three decades of experience in classroom teaching and mental wellbeing, as she explains her top tips for strengthening and helping children develop positive foundations for mental health and wellbeing, alongside their academic learning.
Resources for The Heart Centered Teacher
With more than 50 years of experience in teaching, coaching, and leading, Regie Routman's resource page features a wealth of information. From study guides, blog posts and videos, this website is designed to complement her book: The Heart-Centered Teacher.
Checklist: Self Reflection for Teachers
A free support material from Rigor in Your Classroom, this checklist is a handy guide for teachers to reflect on their teaching role and understand their own learning journey.
Toolkit: Supporting Your Students' Mental Health
Are you struggling with today’s conversations around mental health? Are you looking for ways to support your students' overall well-being? In this free teacher toolkit, learn how to teach your students habits of self care, featuring tools and strategies curated from a range of Routledge Eye On Education books.
Checklist: Mental Health & Wellbeing Audit
This free resource includes everything you need to complete a mental health and wellbeing audit for your school.
Free Chapter: Better Mental Health in Schools
This chapter addresses the stigma of mental health in schools and explains how schools can help to fill the gap when services such as CAHMS cannot addres the huge need for mental health services for children and young people.
Insights From Our Education Experts
The Importance of Values Education
Written by one of the editors of How Values Education Can Improve Student and Teacher Wellbeing, this book focuses on the Education in Human Values (EHV) programme and how teachers can enhance their resilience to cope with the stresses of teaching.
Avoiding Burnout Through a Mindset of Acceptance
How can you thrive in education? Jay Schroder, author of Teach From Your Best Self, explores the ways in which teachers can shift their mindset to reconnect with your passion for teaching.
Improving Teacher Morale and Motivation: Leadership Strategies that Build Success
Hear from Barbara Blackburn, a recognized top ten global guru in education and co-author of Improving Teacher Morale and Motivation, as she sat down to offer her perspective on her new book and why improving teacher morale is important issue for our leaders and educators.
Strategies for Cultivating Student Mindfulness
Explore what mindfulness is and the practical tips for how to teach students about the connection between mind and body.
Six Ways to Help Students Cope With Setbacks in the Classroom
Hear from Marc Smith, a chartered psychologist and author of Becoming Buoyant: Helping Teachers and Students Cope with the Day to Day, as he explains what academic buoyancy is and how to promote it in your students.
How Wellbeing Champions Can Help to Create a Mentally Healthy School
Hear from Alison Waterhouse, an educational psychotherapist and author of Wellbeing Champions: A Complete Toolkit for Schools, as she explains what wellbeing champions are and how they can help mental health in schools.
'Educator Wellbeing' - Answers from Madhavi Nawana Parker
Written in response to the 2020 global pandemic, the author of Educator Wellbeing; Madhavi Nawana Parker answers some of the most pressing questions on the wellbeing of educators in our current world.
Children's Mental Health
This practical article provides straightforward guidance and low-budget strategies to help school settings get mental health right, with a key focus on bullying; one of the eight areas that form the basic foundations for supporting positive mental health and well-being.
