WITY Lab

Hello, #AcademicTwitter! We're the Well-Being Interventions for Teachers and Youth (WITY) Lab. Led by @SummerBraun_PhD at the @UofAlabama, we're devoted to understanding and supporting the well-being of teachers and their students 🧑🏼‍🏫📚👧🏼

📢Hi followers! The #WITYLab has officially moved to Instagram. We will no longer be actively posting here on X. Our new IG is @ wity_lab! We hope to see some of you there as we continue to share our research.

Happy #WITYLabWednesday! The #WITYLab will be at the READ LIKE A LEGEND event this Friday, Oct 24, from 4–7 pm in the Bryant Conference Center @UofA! Come check out our activity using literature to cultivate students’ social and emotional skills! #Outreach!

Happy #WITYLabWednesday! The #WITYLab took a mid-semester retreat to the Tuscaloosa River Walk and enjoyed some team building games and ice cream! A great mid-semester reset for the team!!

This week, we’re celebrating #FeelGoodFriday by sharing a brief on a recently published paper from the WITY Lab! We found that demographic differences and mindfulness skills were associated with teachers’ decisions to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Celebrate your own work today!

Happy #WITYLabWednesday! Meet Allison, one of our new Undergraduate Research Assistants! She's a sophomore majoring in Psychology and English, with double minors in Educational Policy & Reform and Social Innovation & Leadership. Welcome, Allison!

Happy #FeelGoodFriday from the #WITYLab!! For teachers and students alike, maintaining a healthy work-life balance is crucial. One strategy to prevent burnout is to set a cut-off time for work every day, then prioritize personal time!

Happy #WITYLabWednesday! Meet Allie, one of our new #WITYlab Undergraduate Research Assistants! She's a sophomore TRIPLE majoring in Neuroscience, Chemistry, and French from Wisconsin. Welcome, Allie!

Happy #FeelGoodFriday from the #WITYLab! As the semester ramps up, remember the “5 R's” of mindfulness to get you through your busy days - Recognize, Relax, Refocus, Respond, and Reframe.

Happy #WITYLabWednesday! Meet Jennifer, one of our new lab members! She's a first-year Ph.D. student in Developmental Psychology from Brazil. Her research interests include emotional development and applying emotion regulation strategies in education. Welcome Jennifer!

Happy #WITYLabWednesday! The WITY Lab is back in full swing for the new school year! 🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome three new members. A warm welcome to Allison, Allie, and Jennifer!

Happy #WITYLabWednesday! Join us in celebrating Tyler, a visiting undergraduate student who joined the @WITY_Lab as part of @UAGradSchool's Strategic Graduate Partnerships Initiative (SGPI). Tyler joined the lab to help us gain insights into pre-service teachers' mental health!

Reminder: Tune in to our graduate student Zach's workshop about supporting your child's emotional development! Today at 5:30 pm CT via Zoom!

Happy #WITYLabWednesday! Join us on July 24th at 5:30 pm where our lab's graduate student, Zach, will be hosting a workshop titled "Supporting Your Child's Emotional Development". See below for the registration link and more details!

Happy #FeelGoodFriday! We hosted an end-of-year picnic to celebrate the contributions each member has made to the @WITY_Lab this semester! Enjoy this photo from the outing!

Happy #WITYLabWednesday! Our focus groups with pre-service teachers have been so insightful! We've enjoyed connecting with each of you, hearing about your internship journey! Thank you to everyone who joined and shared

Happy #FeelGoodFriday! We're launching focus groups this week to better understand how interventions can support preservice teachers' well-being. Curious how focus groups help guide studies like ours? Check out this TED Talk by Hector Lanz below: ted.com/talks/hector_l…

Happy #WITYLabWednesday! Exciting news about our current project, we will be garnering feedback from preservice teachers to learn how to better support their mental health outcomes this week!

Happy #FeelGoodFriday! Did you know that meditation promotes emotional awareness and happiness in students from as young as 4 years old? Read the article linked below! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pi…

Happy #WITYLabWednesday! Today, our quantitative team showcased their new R skills by presenting some descriptives from our project with pre-service teachers! 📚✏️Take a look below

Happy #WITYLabWednesday! Next week is the annual @URCAConference here at @UofAlabama. The @WITY_Lab is excited to hear from the undergraduate students across campus about the research they have been participating in!