Human Resources Solutions · Educator Wellbeing
The Teaching Well
Helping schools and districts build healthier adult cultures where educators can remain connected, supported, and able to thrive.
Supporting the people who sustain schools
The Teaching Well is an Oakland-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that partners with schools and districts to reduce educator burnout, strengthen teams, and improve the conditions that help educators stay in the profession. Its work connects individual wellbeing with relationships, leadership practices, and the systems that shape an employee’s day-to-day experience.
This whole-organization approach makes The Teaching Well relevant to human-resources leaders, school and district administrators, wellness teams, and others working to support educator mental health, physical wellbeing, belonging, and retention.
How the work is organized
Individual support
Services designed to help educators and leaders build sustainable practices and navigate demanding work.
- Executive coaching
- Mindful mentoring
- Clinical therapy for eligible participants in California
Team and relationship support
Shared learning experiences that strengthen adult relationships and build a common language for wellbeing.
- Staff professional-development workshops
- Staff retreats and wellness events
- Healing-centered and affinity-based spaces
Organizational support
Longer-term partnership focused on the policies, practices, and conditions that influence culture and retention.
- Strategic planning and landscape research
- Leadership coaching and whole-staff development
- Multi-year, organization-wide engagements
Why this matters for human resources
Wellbeing is both personal and structural
Employee wellness efforts are stronger when they do more than ask individuals to manage stress. The Teaching Well’s model invites districts to examine how workload, trust, communication, belonging, leadership, and organizational culture affect the mental and physical wellbeing of educators.
- Connect educator wellbeing with recruitment, retention, attendance, and workplace culture.
- Pair individual supports with leadership and system-level improvement.
- Make space for identity, trauma, grief, conflict, and belonging in appropriate, professionally supported settings.
- Use employee experience and wellbeing information responsibly, with clear privacy boundaries and voluntary participation where appropriate.
Explore services and resources
District teams can learn about partnership options, while individual educators and leaders can explore The Teaching Well’s free resource hub for podcasts, articles, frameworks, somatic practices, mindfulness resources, and professional-development materials.
Page information reviewed against The Teaching Well’s public website on August 18, 2026.