Educating Educators in the Skills of Well-Being

Join us in our Science of Learning in Education Series on Wednesday, 10 September 2025, at LT10 (National Institute of Education) by Dr. Richard J. Davidson, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This talk will focus on work showing that four key pillars of wellbeing can be learned and explore the impact of training educators on these skills.  Evidence will be presented showing that behavioral measures of implicit bias are reduced, retention in the teaching profession is improved, depression, anxiety and stress are reduced and measures of flourishing are enhanced. These teacher-level changes impact student performance. New evidence will be presented that demonstrates that improvements in teacher wellbeing are associated with better outcomes on standardized tests of language and math skills among students taught by the teachers randomly assigned to the wellbeing intervention compared with performance of students taught by teachers randomly assigned to a control condition.  There is an urgent need to incorporate this form of learning into teacher education.

Sign up here: Registration Form for SoLE Seminar 10 September 2025