Mental Health and Self-care: How School Leaders Can Support Others While Caring for Themselves

In many ways, adults are generally more impacted by the current pandemic than are children. These sessions will

• provide practical advice on how to help students, staff and administrators cope with the current pandemic


• review the unique challenges schools face in supporting grieving students during the pandemic


• highlight free resources to address these challenges


• introduce the importance of providing support to school professionals –- including superintendents -- and to promote self-care


• consider how best to support students, staff and ourselves during this evolving pandemic.


• highlight the impact the pandemic is having on adults within the school system, including ourselves


• provide practical strategies for dealing with these stressors, and


• highlight barriers to self-care among school administrators and potential ways to address these barriers