Nurturing a Culture of Wellness

Professional Development Credit – This Micro-Credential may be eligible for continuing professional development credit in your state. Contact your state affiliate association to learn more.

Overview – The Nurturing a Culture of Wellness Micro-Credential requires that the practitioner demonstrates proficiency of all the essential outcomes and the research-based subskills defined in the details. These include proficiency in the following: the ability to develop a collaborative framework to create, nurture, and support a culture of wellness; foster a culture of wellness through school vision, mission, and values conversations and activities; embed a culture that supports overall wellness for all stakeholders (social emotional, physical, safety); and provide a plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and a monitoring process to drive best practices for nurturing a culture of wellness. Educational leaders are in the business of setting students up for success today, tomorrow and well into their futures. There are staff to hire and pay, and the same worries that other businesses face: performance metrics, engagement rates, recruitment, and faculty and teacher retention, to name a few. Therefore nurturing a culture of wellbeing and engagement is crucial for success in your school. The most critical element of all? Educational Leaders (Gallup, 2021).

Essential Outcomes – Nurturing a Culture of Wellness includes the following four identified essential outcomes:

1. Create a collaborative framework to support a culture of wellness.
2. Foster a culture of wellness through school vision, mission, and values conversations and activities.
3. Promote a culture that supports social, emotional, and physical wellness for all stakeholders.
4. Provide a plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and a monitoring process to establish best practices for nurturing a culture of wellness.

Requirements

Part 1. Overview Questions

Develop a responsive narrative that answers the following questions (1,000-word minimum):

1. What resources and supports have you implemented to support and promote evidenced-based strategies to develop a collaborative culture of wellness within your organization?
2. What activities or practices do you implement to create a unified vision, mission, and values?
3. What supports have you offered stakeholder groups to support social emotional, physical and mental wellness within your organization?
4. What plan have you developed, including strategies, timelines, evaluation, and monitoring, to nurture a culture of wellness?

Part 2. Skill Demonstration Product with Self-Analysis

Develop an artifact portfolio that captures the essential outcomes for the Nurturing a Culture of Wellness Micro-Credential and complete the evidence self-analysis.

For each EO detail you will be required to reference an uploaded artifact(s) and guide the assessor to the specific evidence (page number, video time stamp, etc.) within the uploaded artifact(s). An explanation of how the evidence demonstrates proficiency of the outcome detail is also required. The practitioner must clearly and compellingly demonstrate proficiency of every detail under each essential outcome.

Part 3. Reflection & Application

Submit, in writing, a summary of your experience of Nurturing a Culture of Wellness (500-word minimum). Provide specific examples of how you applied all components of the essential outcomes. This could include a description of the process implemented to improve overall wellness, an example of communication strategies, protocols for conducting a wellness team meeting, or other resources that have been used to promote, communicate, implement, and raise awareness for wellness within your organization. Include a reflection about the impact of this skill on your professional practice and how you will continue to apply it in the future.