Mission, Vision, and Values
Until every Educator is well
At The Teaching Well, we work to paradigm shift professional policies, systems, and work cultures to ensure we can all succeed.
MISSION
Our mission is to stabilize schools by equipping educators with the resiliency and socio-emotional skills to communicate and collaborate more effectively.
Vision
Our vision is to have a thriving educator workforce that is healthy, connected, and ultimately able to stay in roles that bring about liberatory change in their communities. In turn, our students grow in their love of learning, achieve better outcomes, and live into their full potential.
“The most important factor of a teacher's staying (or leaving) is their school’s coherence—organizational leadership, material and social support, trust in colleagues, and a shared commitment to success.”
BRUCE FULLER (UC BERKELEY), ANISAH WAITE (U. VIRGINIA), AND DAVID TORRES IRRIBARRA (PONTIFICIA U. CATOLICA DE CHILE)
Our Values
Modeling wellness from the inside out
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We anchor ourselves in the idea that healthy people heal systems, and healthy systems heal people.
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We challenge systems to move 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.
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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.
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We are shifting the paradigm of the teaching profession, 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.
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We do our work with vigor and use our wellbeing as a critical data point to create 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.
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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.
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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.
Why work with The Teaching Well?
“I signed up to work with the teaching well because I knew that—deep down—I really did not want to leave the profession, and that I needed help in figuring out what was causing me to engage in unsustainable habits and mindsets. I knew that I needed the help to find healthy strategies necessary to cope with stress, diet, sleep, wholeness and exercise, so that I could sustain myself in this work for the long term. Honestly, I wouldn’t be teaching today if it were not for the supports I received from the teaching well.”
