Emotional & Mental Wellness for Educators & Staff

The goal of Emotional & Mental Wellness for Educators & Staff is to prepare teachers, administrators, and school staff to lead real-life conversations that create a more positive environment, work to build greater resilience, strengthen relationships, and connect students with appropriate support.

Learning objectives:

• Increase awareness, knowledge and skills around emotional and mental wellness
• Identify warning signs of distress, including verbal, behavioral, and situational indicators, as well as suicidal thoughts and risk
• Utilize effective communication techniques with students to discuss concerns, strengthen relationships, build resilience, and increase connectedness
• Understand the need for referral and distinguish best type of support, while understanding how to motivate a student to be receptive to additional help

Evidence-based models and techniques, game mechanics, and key learning and assessment principles ensure users stay engaged and emerge with a deeper understanding of their ability to use their new skills in real life. Research shows that with experiential practice, increased emotional engagement and reflective thinking leads to stronger self-efficacy and behavior change.

Experienced teachers, child psychologists, and childcare experts contributed to the simulation content.

Learners self-select as an Elementary/Middle or High School educator and receives customized feedback based on their in-simulation choices.

The simulation is available online 24/7. Users are asked to complete pre-, post-, and 3-month follow up surveys to assess changes in skills. Attitudes, and behavior. Upon completion, users receive a certificate of completion.  Clients have access to usage reports and evaluation data via the Kognito client portal.