The Teachers of Tomorrow initiative proposes an upstream approach to addressing student well-being through the issue of teacher preparedness, situating it both as a proximal factor with immediate student impact and as a critical lever of systemic change utilizing a Comprehensive School Health (CSH) framework.

Recognizing the potential for downstream student impacts and for rippling across educational contexts, Ever Active Schools began actively partnering with the Werklund School of Education in 2011 to accelerate closure of the critical gap between how teachers are prepared to address wellness and what they are expected to do in practice.

These collaborative efforts have both informed and been informed by, the culture of wellness in the Faculty at Werklund School of Education and in school communities across Alberta. The results of this work has been a prototype for a system of wellness education, modelled on the CSH framework and involving the development of key partnerships, addressing the social and physical environments of the faculty, and implementing healthy school policies and teaching and learning strategies.

Teachers of Tomorrow worked alongside six sites across Western Canada (Werklund School of Education, University of Alberta, University of Lethbridge, Concordia University of Edmonton, University of British Columbia and Mount Royal University) from 2017 - 2021 to form a team of health/wellness champions, assess their current states of wellness within their Faculties, create and implement an action plan. Teachers of Tomorrow has maintained an active role on health champions teams at Werklund School of Education, University of Lethbridge and Mount Royal University. More than twenty universities and colleges have been broadly engaged in a national network as a part of this work. This network has convened at the National Forum on Wellness in Post-Secondary Education annually since 2018.

Key deliverables from this work include the Building Healthy School Communities Online Course for pre-service and in-service teachers, the National Agenda on Well-being in Teacher Education Programs, and the co-creation of a podcast series, Conversations on School Health, as part of The Podclass.