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This document discusses self-care for educators. It defines self-care as activities that promote physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, and relational well-being as well as safety and security. Engaging in self-care is important for educators as it can reduce burnout and improve educator retention, classroom climate, and student outcomes. The document provides strategies for self-care including mindfulness, stress reduction, healthy routines, nutrition, exercise, and developing a self-care action plan.

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Self Care

This document discusses self-care for educators. It defines self-care as activities that promote physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, and relational well-being as well as safety and security. Engaging in self-care is important for educators as it can reduce burnout and improve educator retention, classroom climate, and student outcomes. The document provides strategies for self-care including mindfulness, stress reduction, healthy routines, nutrition, exercise, and developing a self-care action plan.

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What is Self-Care?

Engaging in activities or practices that help


limit or reduce stress:
• Physical
• Emotional
• Spiritual
• Intellectual
• Social
• Relational
• Safety and Security
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Emotional Self-Care
Identifying, accepting, and expressing a
range of emotions

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ACTIVITY: Self-care assessment
Self-Care: Importance for Educators
Improves educator well being, which influences:
• educator burnout
• educator retention
• classroom climate
• student outcomes
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Prosocial Model
Strategies For Self-Care
• Mindfulness
• Stress reduction activities
• Sleep Routine
• Healthy Diet
• Take Lunch Breaks
• Exercise
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Mindfulness
•Developed over time with practice

•Two components:
• Self-regulation of
attention/awareness
• Non-judgmental

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How To Do It
•Mindful awareness
• Being in the present-moment experience
• Awareness of all dimensions of the
experience

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Mindfulness: Candy activity

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Mindfulness: Student scenarios

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Stress Reduction
• Key to reducing educator burnout
• Can influence mental and physical well-being
• Influences relationships

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ACTIVITY: Create a self-care action plan

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Self-Care Plan: Barriers
• Think about the barriers that impact your ability
for self-care

• In groups generate a list of barriers and problem-


solve ideas to remove those barriers

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Self Care Apps
• Shine – calm anxiety and stress
reducer: daily affirmation
messages
• Headspace – Guided meditation
& mindfulness
• Insight Timer – Meditation
• Calm – Meditation & Sleep app
• Pacifica – stress & anxiety
• Breathing Zone
Self Care App Cont.
• Relax Melodies – Sleep routine
• Happify – Stress & Worry
• Mindshift – Anxiousness
• Motivation – Daily positive
reminders
• Smiling Mind – Balance
• Stop, Breathe, Think
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Mayer, J. D., & Salovey, P. (1997). What is emotional intelligence? In P. Salovey & D. Sluyter (Eds.), Emotional development and emotional intelligence:
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Mayer, J. D., Salovey, P., Caruso, D. R., & Sitarenios, G. (2001). Emotional intelligence as a standard intelligence. Emotion, 1, 232-242.doi:10.1037//1528-
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McLean, L., & Connor, C. M. (2015). Depressive symptoms in third‐grade teachers: Relations to classroom quality and student achievement. Child
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