SAU70 Admin Wellness Challenge:
Are you participating in the SAU 70 Wellness Challenge organized by Jenn Quevedo? Participants are wrapping up week two of their individual wellness plans and activities. Data tracked has included measures of physical activity, healthy eating, stress reduction, water consumption, and other individual metrics.
I am finding two aspects of the challenge to be particularly helpful so far. First, the daily reminder of things I could improve and achieve in easy to measure incremental steps. By starting my day reflecting on my activities from the previous day and then thinking of the day ahead both in terms of appointments and tasks but also wellness I think I am moving towards a more sustainable and healthy agenda. Second, looking back at the week I can look at trends and match them to how I feel and felt each day and about the week in general. As an example I’ll offer up some data I have gathered as part of my individual plan:
Steps/Day via Fitbit for Mike:
I try and use steps as a measure of both physical activity but also as a tool to gauge my effectiveness at getting out of my office and out into the school. With one of my professional goals focused on increasing the visibility of administration and upping the frequency of face-2-face conversations with staff and students it can be helpful to have some quantitative measures during periods of reflection. Looking at this graph it is pretty clear (in combination with my Googlecal) that as the week progressed I spent more time sitting and less time on the move. Given that, I hope to employ some additional planned activity later in the week and we’ll see how it goes.
What is your wellness story? How have you connected wellness activity to your daily responsibilities and effectiveness as an educator? We’d love to hear about it and feature it here if you are willing!
Mike
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