Preventing Burnout, Promoting Wellbeing: A Four-Quadrant Framework for Sharing Responsibility for Staff Mental Health Between Educators and the Schools They Work In.
Innovation in Education
Leadership
March 2027 - 21CLHK
The mental health of educators and staff tends to be framed as either the individual’s responsibility (resilience, self-care) or the school’s (workload, culture, leadership). Both framings are half right, and schools that commit to one tend to blame the other half when it does not work.
The Wellbeing Quadrant holds all four positions at once: promoting wellbeing and preventing illbeing, at the individual level and the organisational level. It sits quietly at the core of the strategy and capability-building work we have supported in dozens of schools in Hong Kong and hundreds around the world. In the session participants map their school’s current staff-wellbeing effort across the four quadrants, identify the one that is empty – there is almost always one – and design a single credible move in each. The material draws on our staff wellbeing research and on the School Staff Resilience Survey data we gather alongside student data in Australian schools.
People leave with their own school’s quadrant map, one move per quadrant, and a way of talking about staff mental health that gets past the question of whose fault it is.
Conference Edition:
March 2027 - 21CLHK
March 2027 - 21CLHK
Job Role Applicability:
- School Leader
- Head of School/Director
- Director of Professional Development
- Board Member
Tags:
- Social Emotional Learning
Type of Session:
Presentation
Presentation
Most applicable to educators working in the following areas:
- Lower Elementary [Age 4 - 6]
- Upper Elementary [Age 8 - 10]
- Middle School [Age 11 - 13]
- High School [Age 14 - 17]
