Heal the Cycle of Student Apathy and Faculty Ambivalence with Resilience (RQ)
Predict & Prevent
If you are concerned with student absenteeism, attendance, behavior or academic success, it's time to consider a community wide resilience building program.
Save time, money and stress using data analytics to determine how to fortify your entire community against the threat of toxic indifference.
Our unique approach blends on-demand and on-campus support for personal growth and professional development, cultivating faculty longevity, student success, and school safety through resilience.
Defining the Problem
By the Numbers
25.2 Billion Dollars spent on Teacher Absenteeism
49% of educators rate their mental health as worse since the pandemic
30% of teachers are currently looking for a new job
50% of educators believe that students aren't interested in learning
What do these issues cost your district?
Innovating the Solution
What is Resilience?
Resilience is our ability to navigate through duress. Our innovative tool is the first of it's kind for educators, showing individual (RQ) and aggregate scores each month.
RQ consists of 5 FACET's for student, educator or administrator longevity:
1. Fluidity: How well can I balance?
2. Amity: How hopeful can I remain?
3. Capacity: How much can I tolerate?
4. Elasticity: How well can I adapt?
5. Tenacity: How long can I maintain?
Each of the 5 FACET's has 5 critical tools (skills) (25 in total) that educators use to establish their resilience roadmap.
Our Approach
Five Steps to Success: Your faculty are going laugh, compete, and have a ton of fun, all while learning how to improve their longevity. Our sustainable model includes a train the trainer program and a platform to measure growth. This learning is turn-keyed for students, helping them improve their success in school and life. Students, families, and faculty will be grateful!
Step One: Elucidate
We partner with you to align your strategic goals for enhancing teaching and learning, establishing clear and measurable objectives that promote educator retention. To make your district more attractive to new hires, keep current staff engaged, and combat student apathy, we focus on building resilience as a comprehensive solution.
Short-Term Targets (1-2 Years):
- Enhance mental health awareness
- Define and implement resilience framework
- Increase understanding of FACETS of resilience quotient (RQ)
- Create Personalized Improvement Plans
- Train a Cohort of Teacher Leaders
- Ignite Faculty Enthusiasm and Enjoyment
- Identify 9 Key Risk Factors for Organizational Health
- Empower School and District Leaders as Change Agents
- Improve School Climate by 5-15%
Long-Term Targets (3-5 Years):
- Develop a Tailored Curriculum for Student Resilience
- Reduce Teacher Attrition Rate by 3-12%
- Lower Faculty Absenteeism by 10-20%
- Decrease Disciplinary, HIB Referrals, and Behavioral Reports by 10-30%
- Reduce Student Absenteeism by 5-15%
- Enhance Overall Resilience Quotient by 10-30%
- Cut Costs for Outsourcing Professional Development by 50%
Cost Savings
What could these improvements mean for your budget? Our goal is to scale resilience initiatives, making them self-sustaining through early and ongoing community engagement. The more interactions we have with faculty in the first two years, the faster we can build trust and foster higher levels of engagement.
Step Two: Empower
Resilience Advocates (RA's)
Resilience Advocates (RA) are the health ambassadors who embody, model, promote, and reward their peers creating greater engagement.
RA's are trained over the course of the year, interacting with others from different districts, developing a customized plan of action for their district.
This train the trainer model scales and sustains community growth, taking the burden off of leadership while growing faculty agency.
Technology
Our Learning Engagement System provides branded dedicated district portals serving as a hub for your community of faculty and families with features including:
- An interactive calendar of live virtual events
- Weekly Prosilience Emails
- A video library of asynchronous PG & PD
- User Management
- Communications
- Dynamic Assessment Tool
- Create Your Own Training
Step Three: Engage
With nearly 80% of educators saying there isn’t enough time in the day to get their work done, we have to make resilience work fun.
Using a team of clinical psychologists, massage therapists, physical therapists, professional comedians and more, we make the work enjoyable. The result is a funny but meaningful approach to personal growth and professional development with a elements such as:
- Solving the outbreak of 'The Quits Virus’
- Team competitions in school and between schools
- Points & incentives with rewards like massage therapy
- Awareness, Affirmation and Action to put learning into practice
Services
- Executive Coaching (Group & Individual)
- Fun Workshops
- Keynotes
- ELP
New Hires
The Educator Longevity Program (ELP) supports all new hires to ensure low attrition, creating a new generation of eager faculty to support student growth.
Educators, paras, and other faculty new to the district, gain a valuable opportunity to network with others, learn essential survival skills, and develop a resilience plan to help them overcome the challenges of being an educator.
Step Four: Enlighten
First there was IQ, then EQ, and now RQ, a measure of our innate plus learned ability to deal with acute and chronic distress through your resilience quotient (RQ).
RQ is the measure of integrated physiological and psychological health promoting faculty retention, student success, and school safety.
We measure RQ through 5 FACET's including
- Fluidity
- Amity
- Capacity
- Elasticity
- Tenacity
We display RQ (resilience quotient) through our dynamic assessment tool analytics (DATA), allowing individuals to track their progress and organizations to identify critical trends needing attention.
Through your dynamic assessment tool you will also be able to monitor your leader board, send messages to users, track points (for rewards), generate reports and more.
Our predict and prevent model is completely data driven, critical for decision making.
Step Five: Extend
Once the faculty are excited about this work, experiencing the benefits in their own lives, we can turnkey this learning to students.
- Curriculum Development
- Fun Student Competitions
- Student Leadership
Coming Soon
A student resilience App
Product & Services
Product
Our Learning Engagement System allows your district/organization to have their own, custom branded web 'portal'. Fill your virtual library with content for educators to work on their own well-being (self), the success of their class (students) and improve the system they work within (school).
You can use these portals to partner with vendors who help subsidize supports, with opportunities to promote their product or service. These vendors become sponsors who become part of the educational ecosystem, improving the financial health of schools.
Services
- Resilience Advocate Training Program (RA)
- Educator Longevity Program (ELP)
- Workshops
- Executive Coaching
- Keynotes
- Resilience (Wellness) Days
Additional Supports & Services
- Access over 270 video based courses
- Dynamic Assessment Tool Analytics (DATA)
- Web Events
- Executive Coaching
- User Management (with reports)
- Allows Parent Participation
- Weekly Emailed Prosilience Tips
- Communication System (with analytics)
- Create Your Own Training
- Comedians and Humor Workshops
- Mandated Training Made Fun
- News Feeds, Blogs and Other Widgets
Success Stories
I can't thank Jared Scherz and his team at Teacher Coach enough for the afternoon of Wellness and Laughter they provided for our staff. We had a last minute calendar change and not only was Jared able to meet our expectations, they by far exceeded them. All the cards were stacked against this program being successful. It was a day in May, the week of NJSLA testing, students had an early dismissal but not the teachers. However, right from the start the presenters got the staff involved and the teachers were eager participants. We had a comedian and a game show plus two massage therapists. The afternoon couldn't have gone any better. We received nothing but positive comments (which is unheard of). I can't thank Jared and his team enough for an exceptional experience. We can't wait to partner with you again!
Jennifer Horner, Director of Curriculum, Southampton Public Schools