RESOURCES
Looking for support in building and maintaining healthy school communities at the district, school or classroom level?
You’ve come to the right place. Browse our collection of tools, learning opportunities and best practices from our partners and school communities across Canada. You can filter these by:
Advocacy Tools: Access tools that can be used to gain support for or recommend systemic approaches to school well-being.
Best Practices and Stories from the Field: Read stories and lessons from others working toward similar goals, and review research highlighting best practice. Have a story? Share it with us!
Learning Opportunities and Events: Access online learning opportunities, and platforms to support advancing school well-being, and learn about upcoming events.
Other Resources: Infographics, research, policy templates, and other supports for building and maintaining healthy school communities.
Why Wellbeing in Schools?
This infographic gives educators, policy makers and school leaders a clear way to communicate the role of schools in supporting student wellbeing and how it links to overall success and achievement.
Communicating the importance of social and emotional wellbeing in schools (webinar)
This webinar speaks to the latest evidence on the value and importance of focusing on social and emotional wellbeing in schools. It shares tools and strategies for communicating this information to your school community.
Communicating the importance of social and emotional wellbeing in schools (slides)
View the slides from the webinar on Communicating the importance of social and emotional wellbeing in schools.
Advancing Wellbeing in Schools (full report)
In Advancing Wellbeing in Schools, WellAhead shares 15 lessons about education, philanthropy and systems change learned through a 2015 experiment in ways to better integrate wellbeing into K-12 education.
Advancing Wellbeing in Schools (summary report)
In Advancing Wellbeing in Schools, WellAhead shares 15 lessons about education, philanthropy and systems change learned through a 2015 experiment in ways to better integrate wellbeing into K-12 education.
Educator Engagement for Practice Change (webinar)
Drawing on academic and professional wisdom, this webinar explores how to engage with educators in change processes, including the importance of educator autonomy and the role of peers.
Educator Engagement for Practice Change (slides)
View the slides from the webinar on Educator Engagement for Practice Change.
The messiness of social labs and how to deal (webinar)
Drawing on experience in applying a social lab model to address complex social challenges, this webinar explores the pitfalls and challenges of the lab approach, mistakes to avoid, and common success factors.
The messiness of social labs and how to deal (slides)
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Teacher and School Staff Wellbeing 101 (webinar)
In this webinar, Dr. Kim Schonert-Reichl and Dr. Mark Greenberg review the latest research on how teacher stress impacts student wellbeing, contributing factors to teacher/staff stress, and what we know (and don’t know) about how to address this issue.
Teacher and School Staff Wellbeing 101 (slides)
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Making the case for staff wellbeing (webinar)
Presented by McConnell Foundation, the EdCan Network, and Avalanche Strategy, this webinar presents insights gathered through a survey of educators and the general public on how to better frame the issue of teachers’ and principals’ well-being.
Making the case for staff wellbeing (slides)
View the slides from the webinar on Making the case for staff wellbeing.