Values
Healthy people heal systems and healthy systems heal people.
The Teaching Well reconnects educators with their brilliance, their bodies, and their relationships so that they can continue to serve their communities.
Healing
We anchor ourselves in the idea that healthy people heal systems, and healthy systems heal people.
Paradigm-Shifting
We use human-centered design to shift the paradigm of the teaching profession, educational research, and the way the entire educational ecosystem functions. We know that by centering educator wellness, we create foundational changes that lead to student wellbeing and enhance academic outcomes.
Human-Centered
We challenge systems to shift from product-centered to human-centered. We know that it is not only possible to center our humanity and wellbeing in the education system –– it is essential.
Wellness & Vitality
We do our work with vigor and use our wellbeing as a critical data point to creating effective outcomes as an organization. We consider the health and wellbeing of individual educators and their relationships within the organization to be vital measures of a school community’s success.
Collective Liberation
We take radical responsibility to be actively anti-racist and to disrupt systems of harm within ourselves, our relationships, and in the ways we serve schools and communities.
Integrity
We live our values both inside and outside of our organization, and we guide our clients to engage in work we actively practice and embody ourselves. We strive to align our values, intentions, and actions in service of our communities.
Courage
We honor the courage it takes to liberate ourselves and our clients from old paradigms. We witness and generate the courage needed to create human-centered, healing, vital, liberated educational spaces full of integrity.
“The most important factor of a teachers staying (or leaving) is their school’s coherence—organizational leadership, material and social support, trust in colleagues, and a shared commitment to success.”