Supports for Teachers
The pages here are designed to provide a variety of support for mental health, caring for yourself and others, and balancing home and work commitments.
They need us to be well.
In this article Sarah Rose Cavanagh, writing for The Chronicle, discusses the surprising recipe for building students’ emotional well-being in the classroom — Rest and joy — for professors.
11 Pitfalls of remote work and how to avoid them
Are you struggling to feel settled at the makeshift workspace you’ve set up in your kitchen? If you’re taking work calls from your closet in an attempt to minimize interruptions from your kids, you’re not alone. In this article from IDEO U., Sacha Connor offers useful coping strategies.
Zoom exhaustion is real. Here are six ways to find balance and stay connected.
Steven Hickman, Psy.D. is the executive director of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. Steven offers a timely perspective on managing our new virtual reality in this article from mindful.
Email management: How to get to–and stay at–inbox zero
With thousands of messages in your inbox, it’s difficult to separate the new and important from the old and unimportant. When messages drop below your screen, it is easy to forget that they exist, even those that you shouldn’t forget. We are more efficient when we practice good email hygiene. This presentation from Sue Frantz demonstrates how to get your inbox to no more than 20 messages in it. She also provides solid email maintenance strategies.
8 Strategies to prevent teacher burnout
Flower Darby offers just-in-time suggestions to protect your well-being and support your students (may require Highline login)
Article discussion workshop recording – with Highline faculty – Led by Gayatri and Hara. Highline login required
No gym, no equipment, no problem! Build your own body weight workout!
Darin Smith offers this handout on how to put together an at home workout and will learn how to do some basic body weight exercises.
Tuning up your home work space
In this video presentation, Highline’s Educational Technology team will share some tricks they have used to keep it together while working at home. Whether it’s network problems or managing that home/family balance, you’ll learn about a set of techniques you can try to help manage teaching and working from home.
Turning conflict into creative engagement
In this webinar from Paul Horton at The Athena Group, you’ll learn how to pick up on the early signs of conflict so you’re able to reduce tension before it becomes a problem, resolve differences of opinions, arguments and conflicts instead of allowing anger and blaming to continue, and come to decisions that everyone can feel ownership over.
Statewide discipline-specific STEM communities of practice supporting remote teaching
The STEM Communities of Practice (CoPs) are faculty-driven learning collectives designed to support STEM educators as they create significant and equitable learning environments for students during COVID-19 that, in the spirit of the SBCTC Vision, lead with racial equity. Read More About Each STEM CoP
Trauma Stewardship
The Trauma Stewardship Institute offers practical tools for cultivating the deep self-knowledge and systemic insights that are at the core of trauma stewardship. Download their tiny survival guide, guide for when experiencing overwhelm and trauma, and map for managing one’s day/life.
Professional development opportunities
There are no upcoming events at this time.
Additional resources and scholarship
Highline Library’s Racial Trauma and Self-Care Libguide
Highline Library’s Trauma-Informed Practices Libguide
From The A & P Professor, Rebecca Pope-Ruark, PhD., here is a list of peer reviewed literature and bibliography around the topic of burnout resources.