Our Future Depends On It: Educator Well-Being

Students feel safe when their teachers feel safe. Students feel inspired when their teachers feel inspired. Students feel happy when their teachers feel happy. Students are taken care of when their teachers are taken care of. Our future depends on our students. And our students depend on our teachers.

Here at The Whole Teacher Company, we are on a mission to empower educators to cultivate the life and career they deserve. Our future depends on it.

Why Does This Matter for Educators Specifically?

Immense empathy, immeasurable patience, unexpected flexibility, intentional creativity, immediate composure, and consistent energy—when such all-encompassing physical and emotional demands define the daily lives of educators, it’s inevitable that joy, determination, passion, excitement and fulfillment can be drained. Then what’s left? Exhaustion, doubt, negativity, dread. Educators don’t deserve to teach this way, and students don’t deserve to learn this way.

To increase retention and overall fulfillment, educators must be equipped with practical, sustainable tools to refuel and restore their mental and physical health.

How Do We Do This?

We support and empower educators as they experience the 12 Whole Teacher categories—they explore how joy, stress, environment, rest, and more have the power to enhance daily experiences inside and outside the classroom.

Until we start paying attention to how these categories show up in our lives, we often fail to recognize the considerable factors impacting our fatigue, pessimism, or mood. Instead, we tend to blame these emotions solely on job stressors, which is understandable.

Think about it—when teachers are not actively managing stress, they are much more likely to react poorly to student misbehavior. When teachers do not eat meals that fuel them, they might start running out of steam by noon. When teachers are not getting enough sleep, negative thoughts kickstart the day. And when teachers’ mindsets are consistently negative, they criticize in meetings and exude judgment. Vicious cycle, right?

Of course, there will always be unique stressors and demands of an educator’s job, but there will also always be things that they can control. Encouraging educators to maximize what is in their control is key to educator fulfillment and overall retention. And what's in their control? The 12 Whole Teacher categories.

Educators' Whole Teacher journeys are simply the beginning of embracing completely refreshing beliefs, life-changing habits, and an undeniable eagerness to continue growing and learning. As they enter new life chapters, they recognize their ability to persist through the difficult and truly appreciate the amazing. This is how educators redefine their state of well-being, rediscover who they want to be, and feel genuine excitement and gratitude for their life and their career.

Welcome to the journey every educator deserves; now let’s get started.

Start Your Whole Teacher Journey:

Explore the 12 Whole Teacher categories through our offerings:

1. The Whole Teacher Guidebook: Introducing a development tool that equips educators with practical strategies to thrive while navigating unique job stressors. This guidebook, written by a former teacher, provides a simple framework to transform educators' daily experiences. With 225 practical strategies, it boosts their joy, energy, flexibility, patience, and more. Over 25 weeks, educators will cultivate the fulfilling life and career they deserve.
2. Whole Teacher Workshops: Interactive and informative workshops exploring topics such “Nervous System Reset,” “Reignite Joy Inside and Outside the Classroom,” “A Busy Educator’s Guide to Nutrition,” and more.
3. Whole Teacher Cohort: This six-month transformative program provides a sustainable framework for educators to consistently refuel what they exude daily—joy, energy, flexibility, patience, creativity and so much more. You can even earn up to 45 hours of professional development hours!