We all remember one teacher who believed in us and inspired us to chase after our dreams, but did you know all those teachers were hiding a dark secret? And that secret turned out to be teacher burnout. 

According to a recent Missouri State Teachers Association survey, nearly 78% of all teachers have "thought about quitting" since 2018. Can you believe that? That means, every teacher that inspired us is silently and quietly breaking down right before our eyes, and none of us know about it.

This has to stop.

If you really want to build a better school, one that gives kids the highest quality education in the world, and also creates a safe and conducive learning environment, then we also need to take better care of our teachers.

Because without teachers, we have no school.

So what can schools do? How can they prevent future teacher burnout when burnout is a personal issue and not a school issue?

First of all, that's simply not true. The reason teachers burnout is because they cannot manage their stress levels. And part of the reason they cannot manage their stress levels is because the school district does not provide teachers with enough support in the classroom or the right type of professional development training and coaching.

Therefore, that's what schools can do.  

In 2007, Leaf Academy founder Doc Schwartz, M.E.d launched his first education pilot program called "The Teacher Development Program" which gave teachers the highest quality professional development training in the country. What made this program so unique is that it was a formal teacher training program.

That means, every teacher who entered the program got an assigned teacher coach, who observed, taught, and provided feedback to that teacher for a full two years of school.

Therefore, when the teacher finished the program they were now experts in the classroom, rather than being forced to "figure things out" on their own. Not only did this program help prevent future teacher burnout, but it also helped every school principal because now they had the best trained teachers in the world. 

And its so much easier to run a school filled with expert teachers, than a bunch of teachers who are "trying their best."

The fact is more than one million teachers have quit the profession since 2018, but none of the 5,000 teachers who went through the Teacher Development Program have quit since 2009. 

Therefore, if you really want to build the best school system in the world, you need to start with training teachers. When you show teachers how to do their jobs better with real teacher mentoring and coaching and not berating and judging, less and less teachers burnout and want to quit.

And shouldn't that be our goal?

If you want to know more about preventing future teacher burnout - click the green button for the Teacher De-Stress Program now.