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When School Staff Are Well, Students Are Too - Strategies To Avoid Burnout

Stress levels and burnout for school professionals has been a significant and growing issue for quite some time and has only increased with the COVID-19 pandemic.  Michelle and guest co-host Gail Markin come together with Vanessa, a school District Counsellor, and Kim Weatherby, lead for EdCan's Well at Work Advisors program, to look at the importance of teacher and school staff well-being and what this means for the students they teach. Listen to strategies school professionals can use to support their own well-being, support each other’s well-being, and engage at a system’s level to keep staff well-being a priority for mental health and wellness— all of which contributes to student health and achievement.

You can read the full transcript for the episode here.