Educator Mental Health Awareness

Dedicated to restoring balance, honoring boundaries, and creating space for educators to care for themselves as deeply as they care for others.

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“Hearing about Educator Mental Health Awareness Month feels like someone finally turned the spotlight toward the people who make education possible.”

F. Bundance

- Middle School Teacher

Core Initiatives

Grounded in purpose, driven by renewal, and built to honor the people behind the profession

Awareness

Educator Mental Health Awareness Month is a call to pause and pay attention to the people behind the profession. It reminds us that educators carry the emotional weight of classrooms, schools, and communities often without space to restore. Awareness begins with acknowledging their need for rest, renewal, and reflection, and creating space for intentional self-care. This month invites every educator to reconnect with themselves and remember that their well-being matters.

Advocacy

The advocacy phase builds on awareness by moving the message beyond individual reflection and into collective action. This stage of the three-year strategic plan focuses on mobilizing educators, schools, and districts to speak openly about the need for systemic support and cultural change.

Advocacy means elevating educator voices at every level, district, community, and state to ensure that mental health and wellness become embedded in the policies and practices that shape education. Through storytelling, partnerships, and visible leadership, this phase lays the groundwork for lasting reform and prepares the movement for the next step: action.

Action

The action phase represents the long-term commitment of the three-year strategic plan turning awareness and advocacy into measurable, lasting change. This stage focuses on building infrastructure and accountability around educator mental health, ensuring it is reflected in policy, leadership priorities, and professional culture.

Action means creating sustainable systems that elevate educator voices, influence decision-making, and redefine what support looks like in schools. It is the phase where intention becomes impact, and the movement shifts from conversation to transformation.

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Helping schools & districts create sustainable systems where educator well-being and student success coexist.

Meet The Founder

I am Dr Shamira Webb, an educator mental health consultant with more than twenty five years of experience in counseling, district mental health work, and higher education. I founded Educator Mental Health Awareness Month to elevate the well being of the adults who shape learning. This work centers psychological safety, emotional labor, and practical systems that strengthen educator wellness and improve school outcomes.

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With over 25 years of experience in education, Dr. Shamira Webb has dedicated her career to supporting the emotional well-being of both students and the educators who guide them. Her combined experience as a School Counselor, Psychology professor, and countless conversations with educators naturally led her to begin consulting on matters of Educator Mental Health, where she recognized a growing need for intentional spaces that honor the people behind the profession.

This mission is deeply personal. After experiencing burnout herself and questioning her place in education, Dr. Webb realized how many educators were silently carrying the same burden. Determined to shift the narrative, she launched a statewide advocacy effort that resulted in a historic proclamation signed by the Governor, making Georgia the first state in the nation to formally recognize Educator Mental Health Awareness Month.

Dr. Webb founded this month as an intentional pause, a time for educators to reset and take inventory of their own mental health. It is a call to reflection: Am I caring for myself as intentionally as I care for others? And if not, what will I commit to this month to begin taking better care of me? Digging even deeper than that, are our school districts making space for educators to recharge and reduce the mental load of the profession? Beyond individual wellness, it calls for systems that listen to and value educators’ voices when decisions are made, ensuring that policies, schedules, and initiatives are designed with both student achievement and educator well-being in mind. Because the truth is, the two are not competing priorities; they can and must coexist.

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“This month reflects everything Dr. Webb stands for. Her guidance helped me through one of the hardest seasons of my career, and knowing she’s behind this movement fills me with gratitude.”

-B. Brown-Bose, School Social Worker

“When I hear about Educator Mental Health Awareness Month, I feel an immediate sense of relief. It reminds me that I am not invisible and that what we carry as educators finally matters.”

- A. Wright

-Instructional Coach

Earn Your Badge

Schools and districts can earn an official Educator Mental Health Awareness Badge by participating in this year’s celebration. To qualify, submit photos showing at least three ways your school or district took part in Educator Mental Health Awareness Month.

Please include your school or district name, contact information (phone number, email, and address), and note that by submitting photos, you are granting permission for them to be shared on the website and across social media platforms. Let’s showcase the creative ways educators are leading this movement across the nation.

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