Creating Healing Spaces for Teachers

Type:
  Video
Duration:
1 hour, 17 minutes
Presented by:
DMH + UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence
Sponsored by:
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Featuring:
De'Nisha Beasley, MSW and Laura McMullin, PhD
Relevant categories:
Education Workplace Wellbeing
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Overview

Teachers have the enormous task of facilitating learning while also impacted by trauma, burnout, and grief. This video focuses on how schools can create policies and spaces for teachers that are centered in healing and racial justice principles.

  Keywords: educator, school, school wellbeing, teaching
  Public link for sharing: https://learn.wellbeing4la.org/detail?id=17181&k=1634246129  
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