Our Future Depends on Thriving Educators
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.
We are on a mission to empower educators to cultivate the life and career they deserve because our future depends on it.
INDIVIDUAL EDUCATOR WELL-BEING MATTERS
Teaching demands empathy, patience, flexibility, creativity, composure, energy, and so much more. When these all-encompassing physical and emotional demands shape the daily lives of educators, it’s inevitable that their joy, determination, and excitement can become depleted.
To prevent this, educators must be equipped with practical, sustainable tools to consistently refuel their mental and physical well-being.
Such tools can foster long-term fulfillment, purpose, and passion—ultimately increasing educator longevity, enhancing classroom culture, and propelling student learning.
Simple, Sustainable Framework
Our offerings equip educators with simple strategies to manage the unique stressors of the job. By exploring all 12 Whole Teacher categories, educators gain a deeper understanding of the tremendous impact their well-being has on their daily experiences, both inside and outside the classroom—and how much they truly have in their control.
THE RIPPLE EFFECT DRIVES SCHOOL-WIDE CHANGE
We believe the ripple effects of one educator prioritizing their own well-being are profound. Those ripples—fueled by their positivity and energy—can inspire students, colleagues, and even administrators to shift their own experiences.
These personal transformations have the power to spark fresh, exciting, and uplifting change within classrooms, schools, and districts, making education a more fulfilling and sustainable environment for everyone.
We Believe In...
Empowering Educators
Educators empower students every day, but we must also provide them with tangible tools to feel empowered themselves so they can continue supporting their students. After all, it’s impossible to consistently evoke empathy, patience, adaptability, creativity, and energy without taking time to refuel.
The Future of Education
To retain inspired, eager, and optimistic educators, we must prepare educators to effectively nourish their mental and physical health amidst the busy schedules and unique stressors that they face.
Student SEL Begins with Adult SEL
The growing importance of SEL curricula in schools requires regulated, optimistic educators who can not only teach but also model these skills for students. This means educators must demonstrate the ability to manage stress and respond appropriately to highly stressful situations. It’s crucial to recognize that these skills are not always innate; to fully optimize student SEL, we must first prioritize adult SEL.
The "Ripple Effect"
When educators foster careers that fuel rather than drain them, classroom culture, co-worker camaraderie, and school climate are positively impacted. This powerful ripple effect can start with just one Whole Teacher.
Simple Shifts
Simple changes ignite sustainable well-being. The Whole Teacher explores practical, sustainable strategies that educators can easily implement into their day-to-day.
Power of Holistic Health
Holistic health emphasizes the “whole person” or in our case, “the whole teacher.” Our offerings explore how 12 holistic health categories show up in educators' daily lives. Whole Teachers discover the immense impact these categories have on their experience as an educator, and as a mom, dad, partner, friend, etc.
Personalizing the Journey
Throughout a Whole Teacher journey, educators personalize the strategies they learn to have the biggest impact on their own experiences at school and at home. They discover what works best for them, their classroom, their school, and their family.
Inviting In Students
We encourage educators to incorporate strategies they learn into their classroom. Their learnings can transform the daily experiences of their students.
Community
We bring together like-minded educators across the country. Whole Teachers are currently in 45 states, Washington, D.C. and Canada.
FROM OUR CO-FOUNDER
Welcome! I'm so glad you're here.
Being a teacher has deeply shaped who I am—it's sharpened my ability to think on my feet, deepened my compassion for others, and boosted my confidence to think creatively, among countless other things. Some days, these changes felt empowering; other days, they felt draining.
But I learned that feeling truly fulfilled in my career meant prioritizing my mental, physical, and emotional health—because without that, I quickly slipped into a cycle of negativity, exhaustion, and overwhelm. The challenge was, I didn’t always know where to start.
That’s when I decided to pursue a holistic health coach certification, which led me to discover simple, realistic strategies that I could bring into both my classroom and my life. Before long, I realized the stressors of teaching didn’t affect me in the same way, because I was consistently refueling in what would become the 12 Whole Teacher categories.
That’s when it hit me: creating meaningful professional development for other educators to learn these strategies was not just important—it was essential.
And so, The Whole Teacher was born.
Here’s to your Whole Teacher journey. You deserve this.
