Resources for Social Well-being
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Socially and emotionally intelligent educators build strong relationships within the DPS community and are better able to lead by example through self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management.
Resources for Social Well-being
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Apps
- Facebook
Network and connect with friends and share updates, pictures and videos.
- Instagram
A photo and video sharing app to connect with friends, family and more.
- LinkedIn
A business- and employment-oriented social networking service that operates via websites and mobile apps.
- Meetup
Connect with or create your own group and meet people near you who share your interests.
- Pinterest
Discover recipes, home ideas, style inspiration and other ideas to try.
- Twitter
This is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with short messages.
- Facebook
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Benefits
- DPS Cares Employee Volunteer Program
A program through DPS that offers employees and community members numerous volunteer opportunities to connect with our students and schools.
- Employee Assistance Program
The DPS Employee Assistance Program (EAP) gives you and your dependents confidential support, resources and information for personal and work-life issues at no charge to you.
- Employee Discounts by BenePlace
As a DPS employee, you have access to many discounts on popular brands, retailers and services. Take advantage of special pricing on popular, innovative products and services to help you better manage your day-to-day lives.
- Guidance Resources
DPS employees have access to expert information on thousands of topics, including relationships, work, school, children, wellness, legal, financial and free time. In addition, you can search for qualified child and elder care professionals, attorneys and financial planners, as well as ask questions, take self-assessments and more. Enter "DPS" into Organization Web ID.
- DPS Cares Employee Volunteer Program
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Books
- Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness
Positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar draws on the latest psychological research on how choices have a direct, long-lasting impact on our happiness.
- Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
With the integration of brain science with psychotherapy, Dr. Dan Siegel offers an extraordinary guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence.
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg explains why habits exist and how they can be changed from exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive and achieving success.
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems with a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service and human dignity.
- Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness
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Discounts
- DPS Gym Discounts
See a complete list of gym discounts provided to DPS employees.
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Other Employee Discounts
As a DPS employee, you have access to many discounts on popular brands, retailers and services. Take advantage of special pricing on popular, innovative products and services to help you better manage your day-to-day lives.
- DPS Gym Discounts
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Podcasts
- A conversation with Debra Park on teaching, learning, and well-being
In this discussion, Debra Park shares why it's important for teachers to find their own personal well-being habits.
- Happier with Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before shares practical, manageable advice about happiness and good habits.
- The Daily Boost
This podcast delivers effective strategies for daily motivation focused on life, career, goal setting, health and the law of attraction.
- The School of Greatness with Lewis Howes
Lewis Howes interviews business leaders, athletes and influential celebrities from across the world to highlight their story and share their personal successes.
- Tiny Leaps Big Changes
Utilizing personal development, self-help strategies and tiny habit formations are the premise of this self-improvement podcast.
- A conversation with Debra Park on teaching, learning, and well-being
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Tips and articles
- 25 Tiny Changes That Will Make You a Happier Person
Lolly Daskal, President and CEO of Lead From Within offers changes you can make to feel happier at work.
- 45 Simple Self-Care Practices for a Healthy Mind, Body and Soul
From the website Tiny Buddha, this article offers self-care practices for the mind, body and soul.
- 121 Employee Wellness Ideas
A list of 121 fun employee wellness program ideas that you can easily implement in your building or department.
- Be Brain Fit
Read articles and other research on ways to boost your cognitive and mental health and fitness.
- Change Your Habits. Change Your Life
James Clear provides self-improvement tips based on proven scientific research.
- Five Ways to Be Fully Authentic
Included are tips to stay true to yourself without letting others down.
- How Can Districts Help Teachers Develop Social-Emotional Skills?
District leaders share insights that in order for teachers to be effective for their students, they must take care of their own social emotional well-being.
- How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain
Learn more about the research on how gratitude works to improve our mental health.
- Making SEL the DNA of a School
From the Greater Good Magazine, school and district leaders share stories of how they are infusing SEL into everything they do.
- The Better Than Before Habits Manifesto
Gretchen Rubin, author of Better Than Before, provides 12 tips for a habits manifesto.
- The Four Tendencies Quiz
Take this quiz, developed by Gretchen Rubin, author of Better Than Before, designed to help people learn how they respond to both outer and inner expectations.
- The Pursuit of Happiness
Find articles written by psychologists, philosophers and educators from science-based information on life skills and habits needed to enhance well-being, build resilience against depression and anxiety, and pursue a meaningful life.
- 25 Tiny Changes That Will Make You a Happier Person
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Videos
- Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation.
In this talk, Celeste Headlee provides 10 useful rules for having better conversations with others.
- Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed.
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin details ways that we can avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations when our thinking becomes clouded.
- Judson Brewer: A simple way to break a bad habit.
Psychiatrist Judson Brewer studies the relationship between mindfulness and addiction. Here, he outlines the mechanism of habit development and shares a simple tactic to help prevent the urge to smoke, snack or check a text while driving.
- Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion.
Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, details the importance for educators to believe in their students and connect with them on a real, human, personal level.
- Robert Waldinger: What makes a good life?
This video describes three lessons from the longest study on happiness as well as some practical wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.
- Sophie Scott: Why we laugh.
Cognitive neuroscientist Sophie Scott shares surprising facts about laughter and the science of cracking up.
- Steve Jobs: How to live before you die.
In his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges individuals to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks, including death itself.
- Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation.
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Websites
- Be Brain Fit
Read articles and other research on ways to boost your cognitive and mental health and fitness.
- Greater Good Magazine: Science-Based Insights for a Meaningful Life
Discover resources, articles and other information about the mind and body, education, parenting and family, relationships and the workplace.
- Suicide Prevention Coalition of Colorado
The Suicide Prevention Coalition of Colorado provides information on preventing suicide and creating a resource network for those who were working to prevent suicide around the state.
- The Healthy Mind Platter
Dr. Dan Siegel, author of Mindsight, shares seven daily mental activities to help optimize brain matter and improve well-being. - The Pursuit of Happiness
Psychologists, philosophers and educators provide science-based information on life skills and habits needed to enhance well-being, build resilience against depression and anxiety, and pursue a meaningful life.
- Walk2Connect
Walk2Connect is a worker-owned cooperative designed to create whole-health walking programs focused on connection to others, to the places we live and to ourselves.
- Be Brain Fit