I plan to talk to my SA how she personally deals with her mental wellbeing, and asking whether there are good contacts within the school community to get more information and resources. I also want to talk to the administrators to see what they do to help teachers. It'll also be interesting to talk to counsellors to see if they have heard of any ways teachers in the school or district deal with their mental well-being. In addition to see what resources they have from the district, I want to see how they personally cope with stress and how specific topics like how they were able to adapt and transition to a new type of teaching when covid hit. This might also lead to how the union supports teachers and their contracts affects teachers on focusing on their mental well-being (for example, limited sick days. Teachers might not take a day off for their mental health because they don't think they are "sick" so they will leave that quota for when they are actually "sick").
For the interactive activity, I'm currently thinking about getting the class to try some "winding down" and "brain breaks" for teachers to do during the day. Our goal is for teachers to realize that they will eventually be burnt out and it will be okay. So when that happens, we can prepare them on what they can do by listing out how they usually destress, so they will have a list to refer to when that happens.
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