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Starpoint plans staff wellness and professional learning day with vendors, wellness fair and staff-led sessions
Summary
The district’s annual staff professional learning/wellness day will include 30-plus in-district presenters, community vendors, a wellness fair with screenings and chair massages, a PTA raffle and activities ranging from yoga to sound therapy.
Starpoint announced details for its upcoming professional learning and staff wellness day: an open-sessions format with more than 30 in-district presenters, a wellness fair with outside vendors and screenings, and community activities ranging from yoga and ballroom dancing to sound therapy and a Taylor Swift–themed staff center.
Presenters and organizers said the open-sessions format produced high satisfaction in prior years, and the district adjusted logistics after last year to manage lunch sign-ups more effectively. The schedule offers staff the choice to work in classrooms, attend wellness activities such as yoga or massage (some services were distributed by lottery), and visit vendor tables for financial and health-plan information.
The wellness fair will feature community partners including Wegmans Health (screenings by appointment), Niagara County Department of Public Health and Emergency Preparedness, Heartland Haven, and other local providers. The district said chair massages and a limited number of facials were allocated by lottery after more than 250 staff entered for roughly 50 slots. The PTA is coordinating a basket raffle and will help with lunch service for staff on the day.
Organizers listed a wide range of sessions and vendors in the meeting materials: classroom- and tech-focused professional-development offerings, fitness and movement classes, journaling and meditation sessions, and community tables on retirement planning and benefits. The district also again plans volunteer-driven community-service activities tied to the day, including making peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches for local nonprofits and a staff “trash-to-treasure” exchange of surplus classroom materials.
District leaders encouraged board members and staff to attend and thanked the many volunteers and staff committee members responsible for programming, logistics and vendor coordination. No fiscal totals for the event were presented at the meeting.
