Beachboard, Cathleen (Feb 25, 2022). How school leaders can build hope and prevent teacher burnout. Edutopia.  https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-school-leaders-can-build-hope-and-prevent-teacher-burnout

Some of the key points I took from this article are:

• There’s three key components which lead to burnout – exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy (these three factors are sadly very common at the moment!)
• Hope is crucial to safeguarding identity, which can be built by discovering and developing goals, having autonomy over one’s purpose, and finding opportunities to exercise this potential and purpose
• If people feel needed, respected, and valued, they have a higher perception of their own agency (this is true of students and staff alike!)
• Recognising and acknowledging competence, granting autonomy, and fostering relatedness among staff are three ways school leaders can build hope and protect against burnout
• “One of the ways leadership can aid teachers is to give staff an abundance of resources to assist with mounting workloads.” I’ve noted a few times in my blog ways in which an effective TL can assist time-poor, overworked classroom teachers (January 10, 2022; February 27, 2022; August 7, 2022; October 4, 2022) and thus potentially act as leaders in schools.