@itsbrittanyblackwell: I also had no idea teacher burnout was a thing. I thought teaching would be… teaching. Nobody mentioned the mental load of remembering 47 tiny things at once, taking work home because you couldn’t finish it during the day, overthinking a parent email for 20 minutes, or feeling like you should always be doing one more thing for your students. I definitely didn’t know that being good at your job could slowly turn into giving your job everything you had. I learned that one the hard way. Now I’m much more interested in figuring out how we can be really good teachers without making teaching our entire lives. Did you know teacher burnout was a thing before you experienced it?