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. Our future depends on it.
INDIVIDUAL EDUCATOR WELL-BEING MATTERS
Teaching demands empathy, patience, flexibility, creativity, composure, energy, and so much more; when such all-encompassing physical and emotional demands define the daily lives of educators, it’s inevitable that joy, determination, passion, and excitement can be drained.
Educators must be equipped with practical, sustainable tools to continually refuel and restore their mental and physical health at school and at home.
Doing so not only has the power to increase retention and overall fulfillment, but also empowers educators to effectively implement increasingly important SEL curriculum and strategies for students.
Simple, Sustainable Framework
Our offerings equip educators with simple strategies to thrive while navigating unique job stressors. By exploring all 12 Whole Teacher categories, educators recognize the tremendous impact their well-being has on their daily experiences inside and outside the classroom—and how much they truly have in their control.
EDUCATOR WELL-BEING 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 their students, co-workers, and even administrators, to shift their own daily experiences.
These personal changes have the power to ignite fresh, exciting, and uplifting change within classrooms, schools, and even districts, making education a more sustainable environment for everyone.
This is how we transform education.
We value...
Empowering Educators
Educators empower students daily; we must provide them tangible tools to put their own well-being first so that they continue to be there for their students. Think about it—it’s impossible to evoke empathy, patience, adaptability, creativity, and energy over and over again without refueling.
The Future of Education
We believe in the future of education wholeheartedly, but to retain inspired, eager, and optimistic educators, we (and even undergraduate programs) must prepare educators to effectively prioritize their mental and physical health amidst the busy schedules and unique stressors that they face.
We will continue to fight for what educators deserve.
The "Ripple Effect"
When educators prioritize their own well-being, classroom culture, co-worker camaraderie, and school climate are positively impacted. This powerful ripple effect can start with just one Whole Teacher.
Simple Shifts
Sustainable shifts ignite sustainable well-being. It's as simple as that. The Whole Teacher explores practical, sustainable strategies that educators can easily implement into their day-to-day schedule.
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 a teacher.
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 Wellness Into the Classroom
We challenge educators to prioritize their well-being at school and provide ideas to involve their students and co-workers.
Bringing Wellness Home
Nope, we’re not bringing work home! Whole Teachers learn ways to prioritize their well-being inside AND outside the classroom.
Community
We bring together like-minded educators across the country. The Whole Teacher is currently in 41 states and Canada.
FROM OUR FOUNDER
Welcome! I am so happy you are here.
Being a teacher changed many aspects of my life—my ability to think on my feet, my compassion for others, and my confidence to think creatively, among many other things. Sometimes, these changes felt empowering, while other days, they felt draining.
Teaching majority ESOL students at a Title I school, completing my Master's in Curriculum and Instruction, and experiencing personal health struggles felt like too much a lot of days. To maintain any sense of happiness or purpose in my life, my well-being had to be a priority. I just didn't really know where to start.
After pursuing a holistic health coach certification, I discovered realistic, simple strategies to incorporate at school and at home. Soon enough, the job stressors weren’t impacting me in quite the same way because I was consistently refueling in (what soon became) the 12 Whole Teacher categories.
Suddenly, creating meaningful personal and professional development for educators to learn these types of strategies felt imperative.
So, soon enough, The Whole Teacher was born.
Here's to your Whole Teacher journey. You deserve this.
In health and happiness,
