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Tips For Promoting School Employee Wellness CDC

The document provides tips and resources for promoting employee wellness programs in schools. It discusses the importance of wellness during the COVID-19 pandemic and suggests simple activities like exercise challenges, mindfulness breaks, and professional development on social-emotional skills that can support staff well-being even in a virtual environment.

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Tips For Promoting School Employee Wellness CDC

The document provides tips and resources for promoting employee wellness programs in schools. It discusses the importance of wellness during the COVID-19 pandemic and suggests simple activities like exercise challenges, mindfulness breaks, and professional development on social-emotional skills that can support staff well-being even in a virtual environment.

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Tips for Promoting School

Employee Wellness
Does your school have an employee wellness program?
YES? Get involved!

Access Healthy School, Healthy Staff, Healthy Students: A Guide to Improving School
NO? Employee Wellness for help starting one today!

?
You can have an employee wellness program and follow
KNOW
DID YOU
CDC Guidelines for Operating Schools During COVID-19.

• Wellness is more important than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a March 2020 survey,1 teachers
were asked to describe the emotions they felt most often each day. Anxiety was by far the most common.

• Physical activity can lower stress and anxiety. 2

• School employees who model good physical and mental health behaviors help support students’ health
and academic success.

• Wellness activities can be simple and don’t necessarily take a lot of time or resources.

• Wellness programs can be organized by administrators, school health teams, or even a single school staff
member wanting to make a difference.

Consider trying some of these employee wellness activities3 to support physical


and mental health, even in a virtual environment:
• Remind staff about employee assistance programs
with access to resources, referrals, and counseling.

• Recognize staff contributions and achievements,


and celebrate milestones with others.

• Hold exercise challenges (e.g., steps challenge,


exercise minutes challenge).

• Find and share stress management and mental


health resources and information.

• Build in physical activity breaks during the school


day (can be done along with students).
Other tips you can try!
• Have mindfulness meditation breaks for staff and
students during the school day. “I know that my students need breaks throughout the
day to recharge their minds and bodies before they’re
• Hold 5-minute mindfulness conference calls for ready to learn again. Teachers need brain breaks, too!
staff. Having a designated time during the work day to practice
mindfulness exercises has made a world of difference in
• Provide or attend professional development
my stress level.”
on social-emotional skills, trauma-informed
- K. Conway, Middle School Science Teacher
approaches (understanding the impact of trauma
on the individual), and resilience.

Additional Resources
• CDC Healthy Schools: School Employee Wellness
• CDC Healthy Schools Partner Toolkit
• CDC Workplace Health Promotion
• CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard
• SHAPE America – Virtual Resources for Health and PE

References
1
CASEL CARES: Strategies for Being Your Best Possible ‘SEL’f with Dr. Marc Brackett.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UE2mWPPj0k
2
Sharma A, Madaan V, Petty FD. Exercise for mental health. Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry. 2006;8(2):106.
doi:10.4088/pcc.v08n0208a. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470658/
3
Offerings from Healthy School, Healthy Staff, Healthy Students: A Guide to Improving School Employee Wellness

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