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Triage Your School
A Physician's Guide to Preventing Teacher Burnout
Author Christopher Jenson writes, “Often we’re lulled into believing we’ve fixed a deep-seated issue when all we did was resolve surface-level issues.” This book is your guide for going deep, with five action items to navigate your work demands, next steps for implementation, and tools for classrooms.
Benefits
- Learn why self-care practices alone aren’t solving the educator burnout crisis.
- Focus on five action items that mitigate the driving forces behind most cases of teacher burnout.
- Reconnect with their passion as educators while creating appropriate boundaries and acknowledging limits.
- Explore and implement a triage process to manage an ever-expanding workflow.
- Be guided with next steps and receive tools to implement in classrooms.
- Be prepared to acknowledge and respond to serious challenges, like the youth mental health crisis, which requires intentional care.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1: Exploring Career Burnout
Chapter 2: Understanding Why Self-Care Is Not Enough
Chapter 3: Action Item One: Effectively Triaging Responsibilities
Chapter 4: Action Item Two: Leveraging Shared Workflow
Chapter 5: Action Item Three: Allocating Energy for Impact
Chapter 6: Action Item Four: Negotiating Work Demands
Chapter 7: Action Item Five: Realigning Work With Passion
Conclusion: Making Your Next Move
Appendix: Tools for the Classroom
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Chapter 3
Chapter 4
- Lessons From Shared Workflow in Healthcare Operations
- Scaffold for Shared-Workflow Operations in Schools
Chapter 5
- Figure 5.2: Issues to Improve in Daily School Life
- Sample Questionnaire
- Sample Professional Learning Experience: Allocating Energy for Impact
Chapter 6
- Professional Learning Example: Negotiating Work Demands
- Sample Organizer: School Needs Versus Staff Time Allotments
Chapter 7
- Sample Classroom Operations Survey
- Sample Lesson Exploration
- Sample Professional Learning Agenda: Connecting Educator Passion With Embedded Preventive Mental Health
Appendix
- School Leader’s Triage Process Template
- Case Studies for Triage Practice
- Beta Test Sample: Impact of Shared Workflow
- How to Select Shared-Workflow Rotations for Staff
- Energy-Allocation Tool Flowchart
- Energy-Allocation Tool: Assessing Assets and Liabilities
- Creating Visual Analytics for Time Allocation
- Decision-Making Considerations for Time Allocations
- The Benefits of Embedded Preventive Mental Health for Educators
- Sample Lessons: Leverage Academic Content for Embedded Preventive Mental Health
- Assessments to Measure the Impact of Embedded Preventive Mental Health on Students and Staff
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