Decrease Stress and Fatigue in the Educational Workplace.
The quality of schools as a workplace, the individual job satisfaction and the personal health of every staff member are central to the success of schools and students. However, the experience adults are having at school is mostly overlooked and marginalized. Inside the School’s seminar on CD, Ways to Improve Staff Culture to Benefit Teaching and Learning puts the focus on educators and administrators and discusses strategies to increase teacher satisfaction.
Author, motivational speaker and former coach and teacher Nathan Eklund, M.Ed, reviews his strength-based strategies for professional development efforts to improve school and staff climates. In his seminar Eklund will review the critical shift schools must take in order to meaningfully address the school as a workplace and offer concrete steps individuals can take to improve the adult culture and climate of schools.
In today’s world schools are under increased pressure and scrutiny and unfortunately that is causing good teachers to become over-stressed and fatigued. Schools are only as good as their teachers so they need to implement ways to keep teachers happy. The advice in Ways to Improve Staff Culture to Benefit Teaching and Learning will explains strategies to nurture a strong relationship between administrators and teachers.
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Nathan Eklund’s seminar will teach you to:
- Recognize opportunities within the school structures and schedule to increase staff support and satisfaction
- Recognize personal steps necessary to ground the act of teaching in the reasons individuals chose teaching to begin with
- Capitalize on intersections and opportunities amongst staff to build collegiality
- Reframe how you perceive school not only as a place where students go to learn but also as a place where adults go to work
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About the Presenter: Nathan Eklund, M.Ed.
Nathan is Search Institute’s Senior Education Consultant. In this capacity Eklund works with schools nationwide in implementing strength-based strategies and in professional development efforts to improve school and staff climates. Prior to his present role, Eklund taught high school English for twelve years and was head coach of the boys’ soccer team.
Eklund holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from St. Olaf College and a Masters of Education from the College of St. Scholastica. His Masters thesis focused on the relationships between socio-economic status and ability-based tracking in high schools.
Eklund’s book How Was Your Day at School? Improving Dialogue about Teacher Job Satisfaction” was published in the fall of 2008. Through this book, he now consults with schools about organization development toward improvements of the workplace climate for educators. Of particular interest in his workplace climate improvements is the critical role personal health and wellness plays in the life and work of educators as well as the importance of robust collegiality. He is a national keynote speaker around these themes.
Eklund lives in Golden Valley, MN where he stays busy raising two sons. His hobbies include competing in triathlons and performing with the local band Kubla Khan, in which he plays piano and sings lead vocals.
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CD: $199
Transcript: $99
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