Cultivating Staff Well-Being

✅ Nice going! The award application will ask you to provide:

• Provide a list of school space(s) for staff breaks. For each staff space include whether instructional staff, non-instructional staff, or both may easily access the space for breaks throughout the workday.
• Select the items provided in your staff break space(s) that encouraged relaxation, fostered positive staff interactions, and allowed for acute stress management.
• Describe how the selected items in your staff break space(s) reduced stress and increased well-being and resilience for both instructional staff and non-instructional staff.

✅ Great job! The award application will ask you to:

• Describe at least two (2) free or low-cost all-staff events and how each event promoted positive relationships among colleagues (e.g., potlucks, coffee talks, or celebrations).
• Upload at least one (1) document sent to staff promoting a free or low-cost event that promoted relationship-building hosted by your school team.
• Describe at least two (2) relationship-building activities used to start an all-staff meeting and how each activity promoted positive relationships among colleagues (e.g., icebreakers, connection questions, pair-shares, or team-building activities).
• Upload at least one (1) relationship-building activity used to start an all-staff school meeting that promoted relationship building among colleagues.

✅ Great job! The award application will ask you to:

• Describe how your school team implemented a formal and continuous gratitude practice, where all teachers and staff are encouraged to express gratitude to each other throughout the school year.
• Describe how your school team provided professional learning on the importance of gratitude to all staff, assessed staff gratitude styles, and aligned gratitude strategies to preferred styles (e.g., public recognition, private recognition, acts of services, notes and gifts).
• Upload at least one (1) guidance document sent to all school staff on how to use your formal and continuous gratitude practice throughout the school year, including the importance of giving and receiving gratitude and using preferred gratitude styles.