ACSA’s “Your Mind First” broadcast series centered around engaging conversations with educators, policy leaders and industry experts on how to cope with challenges and find solutions to the school mental health crisis.
Featured guests included California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and ACSA President Erin Simon. Episodes centered on destigmatizing mental health, educator burnout, suicide prevention and legislation. All five episodes can be found here, along with resources related to the topic.
Planning Together: A Playbook for Student Personal Device Policies
The U.S. Department of Education has called on every state, school district, and school to adopt policies to guide use … Read More
Maintaining Balance as a School Administrator
The following tips are from ACSA’s Member Assistance and Legal Support Team. We can all agree that there has never … Read More
How Administrators and Counselors Can Work Together
How do we educate administrators and district officials to understand the role/practice of the school counselor to ensure they are … Read More
Your Mind First: Episode 5
Episode 5 of Your Mind First focuses on ACSA’s role in addressing the student and educator mental health crisis. … Read More
Restoring Teacher and Principal Well-Being Is an Essential Step for Rebuilding Schools
Principal and teacher well-being is a matter of immediate concern for principals and teachers themselves and for the students they … Read More
Walking a Fine Line — Educators’ Views on Politicized Topics in Schooling
In a time when simply carrying out the essential functions of their jobs is a herculean task, educators have been … Read More
State of the Superintendent — High Job Satisfaction and a Projected Normal Turnover Rate
To examine superintendents’ job satisfaction and short-term career plans, RAND researchers fielded a survey to a randomly sampled set of … Read More
Your Mind First: Episode 4
This week, we’re doing a deeper dive on educator burnout with policy researcher Elizabeth Steiner from the RAND Corporation. … Read More
Your Mind First: Episode 3
This episode focuses on educator burnout, work-life balance and how to create healthier and happier school environments. With guests … Read More
Your Mind First: Episode 2
Episode 2 of “Your Mind First” features California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The hourlong discussion covers how to … Read More
Your Mind First: Episode 1
Watch the debut episode of Your Mind First: An ACSA Mental Health Series. The series will focus on engaging … Read More
Addressing the Youth Mental Health Crisis
This resource is provided by ACSA Partner4Purpose Navigate360. The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped society as we know it. Besides the … Read More
U.S. Surgeon General Issues Advisory on Youth Mental Health Crisis
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a new Surgeon General’s Advisory to highlight the urgent need to address the … Read More
Mental Health vs. Physical Health
This resource is provided by ACSA Partner4Purpose California Casualty. What do you think of when you hear the word “health”? … Read More
Tips from Administrators on Finding Work-life Balance
Educational leadership is a demanding career, often blurring the lines between different parts of our lives. We asked our 2020 … Read More
Practical Guide for Financing Mental Health in Schools
California Children’s Trust and its partner, Breaking Barriers, have released a “Practical Guide for Financing Social, Emotional and Mental Health in Schools,” … Read More
8 Positive Psychology Tips for Administrators
Principals and superintendents are leaders and role models for their community, for other administrators, for staff, and for parents. Often, … Read More
Managing Life’s Treadmill: Is ‘Stressed’ the New Normal?
Managing stress can be learned the easy way or the hard way. Tomorrow is not a given, so it’s important … Read More
What is Mindfulness? Why Practice It in Schools?
Without a clear singular origin but with roots in Hinduism, Buddhism – even Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – the practice … Read More