Webinar Wellbeing in schools. How to transform your school from a Stressed Out School into a Powerful School.

2. HOW TO CREATE A POSITIVE
VIBE EXPERIENCE FOR
STUDENTS & TEACHERS
Coach Middle East & Turnip Education

3. START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR
New teachers
New students
New managament
New groups
New…..
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4. HOW DO YOU FEEL AT THE
BEGINNING OF A SCHOOL
YEAR?

5. Do you feel like this already?
What’s the reason?
Type in the chat box!

6. FIRST 6 WEEKS
• Building a new collaborative team
• Building a learning culture in all your groups
• Prepare new lessons
• Be in contact new students, parents, colleagues
• Full Mailbox
• Finish my lesson plans..
• New rules Covid
• Different roles, different needs?
How to bring it all together so we can create a postive vibe in the
school and classrooms?

7. WARNING:
Don’t underestimate
the POWER of POSITIVE
inner talk!

8. SCHOOL LEADERS:
FRIENDS OR FOE?
• Also overwhelmed
• Different types of school leaders
• Share leadership, solve problems
together
• Control, tell you what to do

9. WHAT IF YOUR LEADER
IS NOT SUPPORTIVE?
• Feedback
• Be supportive
• Ask when they have time
• Different scenario’s
• Write an email
• Speak from your heart, but keep records
• Don’t ask too much-take accountability

10. HOW TO APPROACH A LEADER
IF YOU HAVE AN ISSUE
• Just do it or Not??
• Talk with a colleague first. Do a practice run!
• Make it simple
• It’s only scary the first 5 seconds…
• Is it an issue? Ask yourself why it is an issue. You may
learn something about yourself.
How do you approach your leader if you have an issue?

11. WHAT TO DO IF YOU FEEL
OVERWHELMED?
TAKE THE POLL ON YOUR SCREEN NOW!

12. TAKE A STEP BACK AND RE-
EVALUATE THE SITUATION

13. WHAT SHOULD YOU DO IF YOU
FEEL OVERWHELMED?
• Recognize when you have that feeling
• To do list
• Make a difference between what you want and what you need.
• Take a step back and re-evaluate the situation
• Take a walk outside and breathe breathe breathe
• Focus on one thing at a time
• Collaborate
• What did you accomplish at the end of the day?
• Stop working at the end of the day. Relax.
• Don’t believe in that negative talk in your head
• Start a diary and reflect every day on what you did that day.

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15. SIGNS OF STRESSED OUT
SCHOOLS
• Everyone is always busy and surviving
• Incidents with students and parents, between colleagues
• Agenda is about managing the school
• Principal is solving all problems, alone
• Teachers don’t collaborate on a structural basis
• Teachers, students and SLT are not learning together
• Control- EITHER TOO MUCH OR SOME ARE LOSING IT!

17. SCHOOL LEADERSHIP THAT
MATTERS FOR STUDENTS
• Plan the first meeting about student learning
• Engage everyone
• Agenda: teaching and learning
• Don’t make it too formal
• Have lunch in the canteen/visit teachers after school time
• Don’t forget the people that don’t say much
• Celebrate the first week in an informal way
• You are not the only one in the school who is responsible for
students
• Making mistakes is human, say sorry.

18. TEACHERS ARE YOUR GREATEST ASSET!
INVEST IN YOUR FRONT LINERS.

19. HOW DO YOU CREATE A POSITIVE
VIBE IN THE SCHOOL AND IN YOUR
CLASSROOM?

20. E V E R Y O N E I S
F I G H T I N G A B A T T L E
W E K N O W N O T H I N G
A B O U T . T H E L E A S T
W E C A N D O I S B E
P A T I E N T A N D K I N D .
L E T U S R E S P E C T T H E
I N V I S I B L E L A B E L S

21. HOW TO CREATE A POSITIVE VIBE
IN YOUR SCHOOL & CLASSROOM
• Be Pro-active & Authentic
• Share good teacher practices
• Reduce stress and be in balance!
• Adopt a ‘I see you approach’
• Collaborate
• Be Supportive & Positive
• Love your students
• Change starts with you
• Be grateful for the little things and the big
things

22. F O C U S O N T H R E E
P O S I T I V E T H I N G S F R O M
T H E D A Y W I T H A
C O L L E A G U E ; T R Y I N G T O
S H I F T O U R P E R S P E C T I V E
F R O M T H E N E G A T I V E T O
T H E P O S I T I V E - I T I S A L L
A B O U T H O W Y O U L O O K
A T Y O U R D A Y A N D W H A T
Y O U F O C U S O N .

23. STRESSED OUT SCHOOLS
STRONG SCHOOLS
•Everyone is collaborating to improve student's progress
•Transparent & Trust
•You can make mistakes
•Leadership is shared, even within teams.
•Teachers collaborate and benefit each other's
development.
•Are well managed. School leaders provide teachers with
the information they need to improve their lessons. If
you don’t have it ask for it!
Outstanding schools are Strong schools!

24. N O M A T T E R W H A T C H A L L E N G E S Y O U A R E F A C I N G A T S C H O O L ,
T R E A T E A C H D A Y A S A F R E S H S T A R T , A N E W W A Y T O L O O K A T
T H E C H A L L E N G E . B E E N E R G E T I C , S M I L E !

25. HOW CAN WE SUPPORT YOU?
• Leadership Training
• Teacher Training
• Turnaround ‘Stressed Out’ schools into ‘Powerful
schools’
• Help you create a healthy lifestyle
• Coaching
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https://coachmiddleeast.com