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Leading Educator Wellness
Six Critical Actions to Support All Staff
Explore six critical actions to support educator wellness in Leading Educator Wellness by Bill Barnes and Erin Lehmann. This essential guide provides school leaders with practical strategies to foster staff well-being, improve morale, and create a thriving school community.
Empower educators with actionable wellness strategies that build resilience and balance
When leaders don’t prioritize their wellness, supporting teachers and students becomes challenging. This resource emphasizes wellness as a core part of a leader’s identity, addressing low morale and exploring personal connections. It outlines six critical actions for self-care, goal setting, and professional learning, enabling leaders to create systems that prevent burnout and build resilient school communities.
Readers will:
- Critically examine personal and communal health practices to identify wellness needs
- Develop a common educator wellness vision to guide improvements to health practices
- Identify clear, feasible goals and actionable steps to achieve desired outcomes
- Strengthen commitment to wellness goals through professional learning teams
- Sustain educator wellness through active assessment and improvement of health practices
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“Leading Educator Wellness is timely, practical, and real. It speaks to the everyday challenges of school leadership while offering strategies that are both actionable and meaningful. If we want to build schools where students thrive, we must start by supporting the people who lead them.”
“Leading Educator Wellness shines a spotlight on the critical importance of helping educators be healthy and vibrant, and it gives leaders the exact steps they can take to make it happen!”
“Barnes and Lehmann deliver a vital message: True leadership begins with self-care. This book offers actionable, real-world strategies for educational leaders to foster not only their own well-being but also the well-being of their staff, ultimately benefiting students. You can’t really be present for the people in your life if you aren’t taking care of yourself.”
“I enjoyed this book’s practical, step-by-step guidance on how to create, monitor, and evaluate wellness for educators as well as the real-world insights the authors shared about both personal well-being and leading wellness in schools. The book really emphasized how taking care of ourselves as educators allows us to better serve our students, which is crucial in all leadership roles.”
