School-Life Balance

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Teaching Profession Opinion Healthy Work-Life Boundaries: 4 Tips for Teachers
Here’s how to start planning now for taking care of yourself this school year, from a former teacher.
Robyn Neilsen, August 15, 2025
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Teaching Profession Professional Learning Guide Your Guide to Teacher Mental Health & Well-Being
Explore practical, research-backed strategies designed to improve teacher morale, retention, and effectiveness.
August 6, 2025
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Teaching Profession Do Teachers Check Work Email During Summer Break? Should They?
Do teachers totally unplug during summer break—and do their principals expect them to? Here's what we found out.
Elizabeth Heubeck, July 29, 2025
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School & District Management Letter to the Editor Another Approach to Treating Educator Burnout
School leaders need to push back against burdensome district mandates on behalf of their educators’ well-being, writes a teacher.
July 28, 2025
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School & District Management Opinion How Educators Can Escape Toxic Productivity
Tired of glorifying burnout? Discover how educators can break free from toxic productivity and reclaim purpose and balance.
Peter DeWitt & Michael Nelson, May 27, 2025
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Teaching Profession Opinion ‘Gen Z Isn’t Lazy’: Let’s Rethink What We Expect of New Teachers
When a new teacher requested a mental health day, I flinched—then I listened.
Meagan Booth, May 22, 2025
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4 min read
Clayton Hubert is an art teacher who wears many hats as an educator, including driving the school bus each morning, as seen here on Jan. 16, 2025, in Lamberton, Minn.
Clayton Hubert, an art teacher, wears many hats as an educator, including driving the school bus some mornings, as seen here on Jan. 16, 2025, in Lamberton, Minn. Many teachers say the expectations of the role have grown far beyond classroom instruction.
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Teaching Profession Teaching in 2025: ‘Every Day Is a Crazy Day. It’s Fine.’
The profession is changing, and it's more challenging than ever. Resilient teachers are adapting. But at what cost?
Sarah D. Sparks, Caitlynn Peetz Stephens & Ileana Najarro, March 4, 2025
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Teaching Opinion How Teachers Can Care for Their Students and Themselves This Year (Downloadable)
A veteran teacher suggests 8 essential practices to benefit everyone in the classroom.
Justin Parmenter, January 15, 2025
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1 min read
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A pair of snow people greet motorists along Union Boulevard as a storm packing heavy snow envelopes the intermountain West on March 17, 2022, in Greenwood Village, Colo.
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Teaching Profession Teachers, Do You Check Your Work Email on Snow Days?
We know how students feel about snow days. But how do teachers see them?
Elizabeth Heubeck, January 13, 2025
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3 min read
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School & District Management Opinion What's the No. 1 Way to Retain Principals?
When it comes to the demands of the job, principals share common concerns, according to a recent survey.
Peter DeWitt & Michael Nelson, December 10, 2024
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5 min read
What keeps teachers up at night? A teacher can't fall asleep.
Teaching Profession From Our Research Center The Top 10 Things That Keep Teachers Up at Night
Teachers share their biggest work-related stressors.
Arianna Prothero & Vanessa Solis, November 26, 2024
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5 min read
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School & District Management Video How This Principal Protects Her Teachers’ Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is possible for teachers. School and district leaders play a big role in making it happen.
Lauren Santucci, September 11, 2024
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Katelyn Wolff cuddles her newborn baby. Wolff claims that she was denied reasonable breaks to pump breast milk during the school day, despite a federal law protecting workers' rights to do so at work for up to a year after a child's birth. Many other teachers have experienced similar obstacles, advocates say.
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Teaching Profession One Teacher's Fight for the Right to Pump at Work
A teacher shares her struggle to secure what she considered reasonable breaks to pump during the school day, a right protected by law.
Elizabeth Heubeck, August 29, 2024
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5 min read
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Teaching Profession Legally, Breastfeeding Teachers Can Pump at Work. But Can They, Really?
A recent federal law allows breastfeeding teachers the time and space to pump at work. But many schools haven't caught up.
Elizabeth Heubeck, August 1, 2024
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5 min read
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