After the Bell Series · Book 1
After the Bell
A Teacher's Guide to Understanding and Recovering from Burnout
You did not stop loving teaching. You ran out of room to keep giving.
You still plan. You still show up and deliver. But the person grading at the kitchen table at 9:40 p.m. may be running on something other than fuel, and Sunday-evening dread has become as predictable as the bell schedule. That is not weakness. It is burnout: a measurable occupational injury with known mechanisms. This CBT-based guide offers a practical path toward repair, written for the real conditions of teaching.
Inside this book
- Why burnout is an injury, not a resilience deficit, and why the wellness poster made you angrier
- Compassion fatigue, moral injury, and the biology of chronic school stress
- Triage without shame, a grading contract, and the audience you cannot please
- Teacher-specific thought records that end the nightly courtroom
- A Sunday redesign, an after-school airlock, and boundaries that hold when guilt arrives
- When and how to seek professional help, including an honest answer to: What if the district finds out?
- The three doors: recommit, reshape, or leave, chosen deliberately and with evidence
The bell rings. The wave rises and falls. You can learn to stand in it again.
- Author
- Ellis Hartwell
- Series
- After the Bell Series · Book 1
- Written for
- Teachers and educators
- Editions
- Paperback · Hardcover · Kindle
- Trim size
- 6 × 9 in
- Publisher
- Tsunami Reading
Reads well with
The Teacher Burnout Recovery Workbook
A CBT-Based Program for Emotional Exhaustion, Sunday Dread, and Loving Teaching Again