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Auto-investment app: • Acorns (acorns.com; $1 to $3 monthly fee) rounds up your purchases and lets you invest your spare change in stocks and bonds. Homebuying help: • Landed (landed.com) helps edu- cators purchase homes in pricey metro areas by paying half the down payment. If you stay in the home, you don't need to pay it back, but if you sell or buy out the investment, Landed takes 25 percent. Capitalize on your creativity: • Be empowered by options that allow you to supplement your income through creative work you are already doing. Teachers Pay Teachers (teacherspayteachers.com) is an example. Kn o ch e say s d e velopin g a "m on e y mindset," along with mastering other self- care practices and tools, is essential so educators can start the new school year with renewed energy instead of depletion. It's particularly critical in recovering from the current pandemic, she adds, noting several steps involved: "We spent the spring responding to our communities and meeting the basic needs of students. is summer is an opportunity to ref lect and take time to nurture ourselves and our families. Once we have rested, we can sift through ingenious ideas that surfaced during the crisis, to find what we want to continue. Which leads to renewal — we take what we've learned and walk with vitality into the 2020-21 school year." Resources S E A R C H T H E S E practice collections at Greater Good in Education (ggie.berkeley.edu): • Stress Management for Educators • Affirming Important Values • Use Your Strengths • Connecting With Students • Connecting With Colleagues • Helping Students Feel Connected to Each Other Restorative circles: • "Building Community With Restorative Circles": edutopia.org/article/ building-community-restorative-circles Explicit SEL lessons: • Collaborative Learning Solutions: clsteam.net/category/ daily-sel-lesson • CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning): casel.org Quotefancy.com Get ready to help students as they return to school; see "Students' Well-Being," next page. "Acknowledge the loss and grieving we've all gone through as a result of COVID-19 — the collective trauma of losing routine, losing milestones," says school social worker Giuliana Valdovinos. 56 cta.org CTA & You