At the end of each school year, I thank my daughter's teachers for a great year. I truly don't know a profession with so many roles, responsibilities and limited time to accomplish key initiatives. To all teachers, thank you for what you do.
Teachers are being asked to do a lot within their day, and for them and their students, staying healthy and well is a must. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, keeping hands clean through improved hand hygiene is one of the most important steps to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others.1 As the marketing director for PURELL hand sanitizer, I kept my daughter's teachers in mind when we designed and launched the online Teacher Center on PURELL.com.
Teachers can visit The PURELL Teacher Center for a collection of hand hygiene learning tools that can be easily incorporated into the classroom. The Teacher Center contains online coupons and resources, including already developed hand hygiene lesson plans, posters, supply checklists, scientific studies and there are games for students, too!
We invented PURELL Advanced Hand Sanitizer for superior germ kill in all kinds of environments, including those which teachers and students face every day in their busy school day. Today, many schools across the country are already using PURELL hand sanitizer as part of a daily hand hygiene routine along with handwashing to keep teachers and students healthy and productive. In a study conducted in schools, absenteeism caused by illness was 51 percent lower in classrooms that used PURELL Hand Sanitizer regularly and implemented a hand hygiene educational program versus classrooms that did not.2
Education is key in the development of everyday hand hygiene habits. Teachers are already teaching children when to wash and sanitize their hands, and with the PURELL Teacher Center, there are now additional resources available for the classroom.