Healing Schools Project

Entrepreneur: Wenimo Okoya

Founded: 2021

The Healing Schools Project works to prevent teacher attrition by addressing and preventing teacher stress and burnout. They engage with teachers and educational leaders simultaneously to change school systems and cultures to foster lasting healing and communities of care. The Healing Schools Project’s work is research-based and seeks to employ a framework of peer support rooted in Black and Indigenous healing. Participants build a community rooted in shared experiences with teachers of color from other schools using mindfulness practices, restorative conversations, and collective envisioning of culture changes within schools.