Pays The Teaching Well up to $21,825 for wellness training and mentoring for educators

The Teaching Well will design workshops for teacher mentors on supporting the social-emotional health and wellness of the teachers they mentor, covering self-care and sustainability. It will also provide one-to-one mentoring twice a month for participating educators. The agreement runs from July 25, 2022 to June 30, 2023. The agreement period began before the board vote.

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Vendor / partner: The Teaching Well · Oakland, CA
Action: New agreement
Category: Staff & hiring
Term: Jul 25, 2022 – Jun 30, 2023
This vote: $21,825
Funding: Kaiser Health&wellness W/ebcf
Resource / site: 9225-922
Vendor no.: 004278
Presented by: Chief Academic Officer
File: 22-2365 · agenda S.-85
Outcome: Adopted on the General Consent Report, Oct 26, 2022

Official text

Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2022-2023 by and between the District and The Teaching Well, Oakland, CA, for the latter to design and facilitate professional development sessions that build the capacity of teacher mentors to attend to the SEL and wellness of their mentees; develop and facilitate workshops that build participants’ skills and language around self-care, community care, work-life balance, and sustainability, so they can better serve students and communities; provide one-to-one mentoring for 30 minutes 2x/month for participating educators, using personalized sessions of mindfulness, somatic practices, and emotional processing support strategies to help educators build habits that increase individual and collective sustainability, via the Community Schools and Student Services Department, for the period of July 25, 2022 through June 30, 2023, in an amount not to exceed $21,825.00.

History

Oct 26, 2022 Adopted on the General Consent Report

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