Participate and share: Interactive session 
Recorded Session
Purpose:
Healthy school communities need connected and supported educators. And yet, pandemic stress has pushed over half of educators to consider leaving the profession earlier than they planned (NEA, Feb 2022). To address this acute wellbeing need, teachers, staff and administrators can use low-lift, high-impact gratitude practices to build essential educator relationships, belonging, and emotional health. The session's purpose is to provide educators with new ideas on how gratitude practice can address this acute need in educator wellness.
Objectives:
Participants will:
-learn how integrated gratitude practice can support staff emotional health and resilience in just minutes a week
-explore research on gratitude and adult wellbeing from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center
-leave with practices to use immediately with your staff and receive information about GiveThx’s research-validated approach (ESSA + CASEL) to support educator wellbeing in schools and districts.
Plan (see below)
Activities:
The session will include direct instruction, discussion, polling, reflection, and hands-on use of a digital thanking tool.
Evidence:
A 2020 peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Positive Psychology by Dr. Giacomo Bono et al titled "A New Approach to Gratitude Interventions in High Schools that Supports Student Wellbeing" (https://bit.ly/GTRsch) stands as powerful evidence of success of the approach being presented. A broader body of evidence from the scientific community provides additional support. The nonprofit's program evaluation and inclusion in CASEL's program guide lends additional support.
Session Agenda
Challenges - Polling and direct instruction (10 min)
Science - Direct Instruction and discussion (10 min)
Practice - Hands-on learning with a digital tool and set of practices (20 min)
Application - Reflection and sharing out (10 min)
Q&A - Question answering and access to takeaway resources (10 min)
A 2020 peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Positive Psychology by Dr. Giacomo Bono et al titled "A New Approach to Gratitude Interventions in High Schools that Supports Student Wellbeing" (https://bit.ly/GTRsch) stands as powerful evidence of success of the approach being presented. A broader body of evidence from the scientific community provides additional support. The nonprofit's program evaluation and inclusion in CASEL's program guide lends additional support.
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