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Assess your division wellbeing needs through the formation and distribution of a survey.

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Assess your division wellbeing needs through the formation and distribution of a survey.

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Subscribe to you enews for OHS for tips for newsletters and to support the safety of staff

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Supporting School Wellness Together.

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In this school year like no other, it's time to return to our roots in school health promotion.

Comprehensive school health is Alberta's long-trusted framework for healthy schools. Let's use it to help students, staff, and school communities be well during the COVID-19 pandemic.

We'll get through this, together.

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In this school year like no other, it's time to return to our roots in school health promotion. Comprehensive school health is Alberta's long-trusted framework for healthy schools. Let's use it to help students, staff, and school communities be well during the COVID-19 pandemic. We'll get through this, together.

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Network with your health services in your area, build connections with other representatives in your province through attending seminars and brainstorming sessions around wellness.

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The Ways to Wellness toolkit is intended for use by mental health staff, school administrators, and health practitioners. The toolkit can support the promotion of mental health in initiatives such as the Comprehensive School Health strategy, chronic disease prevention, and other targeted settings.

Ways to Wellness (YouTube video) - Learn more about the simple steps that can be taken.

The following posters are available for downloading:

All tips - Be kind, practise gratitude, eat healthy foods, get active, be yourself, get your groove on, and laugh.

Be kind - Showing kindness can help you and others feel good.

Practise gratitude - Being grateful can help you develop a positive outlook on life.

Eat healthy foods - What you eat can affect how you feel. Eat healthy to feel healthy.

Get active - Physical activity can improve your mood.

Be yourself - Appreciating yourself can have a positive impact on your mental health.

Get your groove on - Music soothes the soul.

Laugh - Laughter is medicine for the mind and helps to reduce stress and tension.

Related Resources

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Ways to Wellness Toolkit | Alberta Health Services

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The Ways to Wellness toolkit is intended for use by mental health staff, school administrators, and health practitioners. The toolkit can support the promotion of mental health in initiatives such as the Comprehensive School Health strategy, chronic disease prevention, and other targeted settings.

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Network with your benefit provider liaison 

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Network with your benefit provider liaison 

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Enter into a partnership with your benefit liaison for your area for resourceful in-services , supports, strategies, and to develop a health profile for your division.

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It Takes a Village | ASEBP Mental Health

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The Dimensions of Wellness Guide provides you with information and activities that promote a holistic approach to your well-being. The guide examines how each dimension of wellness affects our mental and physical health and gives you strategies to improve each dimension, which in turn are designed to improve your overall well-being.

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ASEBP Resources - It Takes a Village | ASEBP Mental Health

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The Dimensions of Wellness Guide provides you with information and activities that promote a holistic approach to your well-being. The guide examines how each dimension of wellness affects our mental and physical health and gives you strategies to improve each dimension, which in turn are designed to improve your overall well-being.

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Social Emotional Support for Staff and Students

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Research on successful whole-school improvement has identified school leader support as the single biggest predictor of whether change takes hold and is beneficial (Fullan, 2011). For example, staff perceptions of a supportive leader are associated with student attendance, positive behavior, academic achievement, and overall school climate (Berends & Kirby, 2002). This type of perceived support can also contribute to teachers' levels of commitment to their profession and their school (Collie et al., 2011).

School leaders play an important role in shaping the academic, social, and emotional lives of their students. Administrators who internalize this goal are deeply invested in making positive, ongoing improvements. These dedicated leaders understand that positive changes are more likely to occur when there is a strong team working alongside them, sharing the work, and contributing expertise. That's why it's crucial to identify and engage a core group of stakeholders to lead schoolwide SEL in tandem with the principal.

Becoming this kind of leader requires one to "lead from the center rather than the top" and take responsibility for the learning of colleagues (DuFour & Eaker, 1998; Lambert, 2003). One of the most effective ways a principal can "lead from the center" is to cultivate shared ownership by modeling collaboration and SEL competencies, and by sharing authority and leadership responsibilities with influential, respected members of the school community.
Administrator Actions:

Establish a team that shares leadership responsibility for SEL, including empowering at least one individual on the team to follow through on final decisions. Without this, even small decisions may stall waiting for administrator approval.

Ensure that the SEL team represents the school community in expertise, role, experience, gender, race, culture, and background.

Before the team begins working together, collaboratively establish clear goals, roles, and responsibilities.

Create time and space for all staff to engage in foundational learning on SEL.

Engage all stakeholders in setting a vision for SEL that reflects the school community's collective values.

Administrators Resources:

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Social Emotional Learning Programs | CASEL - Casel Schoolguide

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Implementing schoolwide SEL starts with building awareness, commitment and ownership. CASEL can help you create an effective SEL team to lead the work and get all staff and stakeholders excited about SEL. Here, you can learn about SEL programs and see what SEL looks like in the classroom.

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Wellness Journal Planner to get started on a wellness journey for goal making.

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Documents and Resources

Get the most from Guarding Minds at Work. Download these PDF resources for complete guidance on how to assess and address psychological health safety in your workplace using the survey, reports, and other tools.

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College of Alberta School Superintendents Wellness Page

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College of Alberta School Superintendents Wellness Page

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CASS believes that for everyone to meet the professional practice standard, we need to address both personal and workplace wellbeing.

Additional supports to enhance implementation. The playbook was developed by a Community of Practice of Alberta system leaders and partners based on local practices.

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This learning guide offers a summary of the online session offered and a link to the recording. A summary of CASS members thoughts on how they would use this resource are also included. Reflective questions are provided focusing on application of the learning, specifically with your system leadership team.

System leaders are addressing school authority needs by exploring and applying workplace wellness strategies. Continuing to support Alberta school authorities with workplace wellness planning and implementation, Directors of Leadership - Wellness, Brian Andjelic and Jim McLellan, launched a Community of Practice (CofP). Over 20 CASS members are working together with the intent of creating a playbook, featuring additional practices and resources to support each of the five wellness conditions outlined in CASS' Workplace Wellness Planning and Implementation Guide.

To move forward with the creation of a Workplace Wellness Plan, system leaders will need to start with facilitating an organization's creation of a collective "Why". This begins by engaging all those who will be impacted by a Workplace Wellness Plan.

This Learning Guide shares a summary and resources on Workplace Wellness at the 2020 CASS Fall Conference.

CASS Practice Profiles
One additional construct, based on the Alberta context and members' needs, has been added to the CASS Practice Profile. This construct, following the required Alberta Education SLQS competencies, is framed around the conditions represented in the CASS Workplace Wellness Framework. System leaders are more likely to meet the professional practice standard when they are well.

Download Printable Version (pdf) Download Fillable Version (Word)

The College of Alberta School Superintendents upholds the standard of practice for system leadership in Alberta.

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CASS Workplace Wellness Conditions Assessment

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CASS Workplace Wellness Conditions Assessment

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CASS Wellness Environmental Scan & Needs Assessment

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CASS Wellness Environmental Scan & Needs Assessment