Self-Care Strategies for Educators During the Coronavirus Crisis: Supporting Personal Social and Emotional Well-Being

This brief is addressed to educators who face the stresses of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting school closures, online service provision, and quarantine conditions. The brief offers practical information and guidance on self-care in these challenging times. Accompanying this resource is a related brief, Community-Care Strategies for Schools During the Coronavirus Crisis. Topics covered include healthy mindsets and behaviors, practicing self-awareness, being optimistic and solutions-focused, fostering openness, flexibility, adaptability, and humor, identity, connectedness and belonging, as well as how to healthy boundaries and interactions, and when to seek help.