u/bchmgal

Hey everyone. I'm on the ProD committee for our school this year, and one of the items that came up as something teachers wanted to explore during ProD was teacher mental health. We did a survey to ask what people wanted covered, so I've got a list of topics but I could use some suggestions on ideas that would make this a well-run, beneficial day for teachers.

The biggest concern our survey demonstrated is burnout. Teachers are just exhausted. This comes as no surprise to us, and unfortunately we are at the mercy of the employer on work conditions, class size, admin support, etc. This isn't a problem a single ProD day can fix.

When we asked teachers what they needed the most help with re: mental health, they said:

• Boundary/balance-setting strategies for time, communication, and workload
• Time- and energy-saving tools for day-to-day teaching tasks
• Reducing burnout before it builds

We also asked our teachers what would help them the most day-to-day, and here are some themes that emerged:

• Socializing and getting to know staff to build supportive community (maybe based around food or a destressing activity?)
• Collaboration
• Creating general emergency lesson kits for when teachers are sick and can't put sub notes together
• Creating a kit for new or early-career teachers, specifically with how to juggle a million things when older teachers don't volunteer as much
• Strategies to streamline assessment

SO, questions for you guys:

• What type of speaker, if any, would be *actually* helpful to hear from?
• What do you envision as helpful activities we could run around this theme?

Thanks everyone! Enjoy the last few weeks of freedom :)

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