The Whole Educator Collective
This series offers a transformative solution to combat educator burnout, stress and reduce staff turnover by fostering emotionally intelligent, supportive school environments. By empowering educators with the tools to build and promote secure relationships, the workshops enhances academic success and promotes long-term well-being for both educators and students.
The Science
Why Relationships Drive Learning
People talk about the importance of relationships in education a lot—but what does it look like to build relationships in schools? Why does it even matter? FuelEd's Whole Educator Collective kicks off with answers to these questions and a deep dive into the latest science from developmental psychology, attachment, neurobiology, and trauma. By exploring how toxic stress and trauma impact the brain, how relationships heal and build resilience, and why secure relationships enhance educators' ability to drive learning, this foundational workshop gives educators an entirely new lens for understanding themselves, their students, and their colleagues.
Following these workshops, educators will be able to:
- Recognize the impact of relationships on the developing brain and its capacity to learn
- Distinguish the types of relationships that promote learning from those that don’t
- Self-assess their own ability to build secure relationships that drive learning
- Identify behaviors that “trigger” them and their impact on relationships
The Skills
How to Build Secure Relationships
Every day educators serve as counselors, coaches, and parent-figures. The best educators know how to use relationship skills to build trust, motivate, and inspire because effective teaching and leading in schools is less about calculus or chemistry than it is about connection. To truly optimize learning and growth, what really matters is an educators' ability to make others feel safe and seen. We combine instruction, discussion, practice, and coaching to teach educators powerful communication skills essential to building secure relationships in schools.
Following these workshops, educators will be able to:
- More effectively take the perspective of students and staff, even when different than their own
- More skillfully respond to student and adult challenges, emotions, and trauma with empathic listening skills
- More effectively identify and communicate about their own needs and problems with genuine communication skills
- More effectively build relationships and solve problems with adults and students by learning how to combine the skills of empathy and genuineness
The Self-Awareness
Unpacking Your Stuff
We need educators who know how to care for others and care for themselves. But both of these things are really hard when working with insecure adults or students because, "those who need the most love ask for it in the most unloving ways." Personalizing others' behaviors is natural but also puts educators at risk of burnout, professional dissatisfaction, and turnover. This workshop gives educators foundational knowledge about how early relationships shape our ways of relating—also known as an "attachment style." When educators understand that their past influences who they are, they begin to understand that others’ pasts similarly shape who they are and how they show up. The result: more compassion, sensitivity, and responsiveness to the students and adults educators work with, and a greater ability to care for themselves.
Educators will be able to:
- Identify the four attachment styles in children and adults
- Comprehend attachment styles as survival strategies built from early environments
- Identify their own attachment style and understand how it developed and impacts relationships and wellbeing today
- Attain a sense of affiliation with others based on common attachment experiences
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