Over 2,500 educators and administrators gathered Wednesday for 2023 Show Up For Teachers Conference, where they would be schooled not in mathematics or literature, but in happiness techniques and stress management.
SANDY — "Fifty percent of our teachers leave in the first five years," Utah's first lady Abby Cox said, noting that if teachers don't receive more support from parents and the state, they will continue leaving at startling rates.
As a former special education teacher herself, the First Lady noted the importance of helping teachers receive the resilience skills they need "so that they can be the leaders in their school." Show Up for Teachers also provided breakout sessions for educators to learn more about goal setting, personal finance, conflict resolution and mindfulness strategies.
"If ever they needed moral boost, it's now — because the Legislature this past year and groups of parents who claim they're all about helping education, namely Utah Parents United, are the most negative forces that I've ever seen," Moss said, referring to a conservative parents' rights group that has lobbied for legislation to provide stronger oversight of instructional materials used in classrooms across the state, among other things.
"We have teachers that are being treated like the babysitters down the street — these are professionals. These are professionals that are doing critical work in our state. We have to elevate the profession again to the status version," she said. Brooks, the conference's keynote speaker, added that teachers may experience work dissatisfaction from lacking one of happiness's core tenants — validation and appreciation.
Vendors and businesses included the Utah Education Association, the Clark Planetarium, Raise the Future, the Children's Center Utah, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and dozens more.
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