Welcome

Weare excited that you have decided to use this plan book and journal, which is a companion to Educator Wellness: A Guide for Sustaining Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Social Well-Being (Kanold & Boogren, 2022). Typical of most school year planners, this resource provides space for your monthly and weekly calendar needs. This plan book and journal also offers the benefit of working on your own wellness throughout the school year. As a result, you will encounter weekly wellness invitations that will sustain you, your energy, and your positive disposition into summer, fall, winter, and spring.

As educators, we immerse ourselves daily in social experiences and our common humanity with others—including colleagues, students, and our community families. However, that immersion requires compassion, and compassion fatigue can affect our physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being.

Dates and deadlines arrive on our calendars. Sometimes we rush past them, but more deadlines and pressures loom. We plan, prepare, and do the best we can; then the next month or season arrives and before we know it, the school year has ended. It’s over. We tuck away that year’s planners and prepare for the next season of school and life ahead.

This plan book and journal’s purpose is to serve and support your weekly planning while improving your wellness routines. We hope the journaling aspect of this plan book inspires or reinspires you to take back your joy and create more magical moments. We also remind you to cherish the people you work with and the people you love. Use this book to capture the busy details of your life and find the time each day to bring peace and kindness to yourself and those around you.

We believe your educator wellness is “a continuous, active process toward achieving a positive state of good health and enhanced physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being” (Kanold & Boogren, 2022, p. 1) May this book allow you to see, feel, and experience the wellness and well-being inside and around you as you engage in your important and meaningful work in this school year and this season of your life.