For this series on depressurizing the teacher’s soul, I’m going to keep a few things consistent: All links for the series will be in the anchor post — the one I linked to above. I’ll have a few standard footnotes for folks who are like, “Wait, I have no TIME for these depressurization things!” [1]. […]
Archives for October 2021
A Strategic, Smart Approach to Depressurizing the Teacher Soul
Hey there — here you’ll find links to the whole series on depressurizing the teacher soul: Intro, Part I: The Teacher’s Journey: A Deeper, Better Way of Thinking (and Doing Something) about Burnout and Demoralization Intro, Part II: Efficiency Hasn’t Saved Us Intro, Part III: The Mechanics of Teacher Burnout (AKA the Workload-Pressure Cycle) Intro, […]
The Mechanics of Teacher Burnout (AKA the Workload-Pressure Cycle)
Burnout… I hate writing about it because it’s all the rage right now. And you know me — I dislike the edu-fad hamster wheel. But it’s just true that: I teach from who I am. And when I’m burnt out, that means I’m a worse teacher. I live from who I am. And when I’m […]
Efficiency Hasn’t Saved Us
Recently, I epigraphed a blog post with a line from David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work and What We Can Do About It (paperback | audio). Graeber’s title isn’t exactly a Mr. Rogers riff, but his heart in the book is for folks like you and me — teachers who sometimes feel like we’re […]
The Teacher’s Journey: A Deeper, Better Way of Thinking (and Doing Something) about Burnout and Demoralization
This year has been hard. In some ways, what I just said is teacherspeak for October. But in other ways, this year has been uniquely difficult for educators. It’s gone worse than we expected. The needs are greater than we thought. The professional literature is a cold and barren thing compared to the raw humanity […]