TOPIC: Burnout

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Introductory Packet

• Understanding and Minimizing Staff Burnout
• Working Collaboratively: From School-Based Collaborative Teams to School- Community-Higher Education Connections

Quick Training Aid

• School Staff Burnout
• Re-engaging Students in Learning

Newsletter Articles

• School Staff Burnout.
• Re-engaging Students in Learning at School
• Opening the Classroom Door

Center Report

• Resource-Oriented Teams: Key Infrastructure Mechanisms for Enhancing Education Supports

Continuing Education Module

• Developing Resource-Oriented Mechanisms to Enhance learning Supports
• Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom-Focused Enabling

Practice Notes

• About Motivation
• Working with Disengaged Students

Resource Aid Packets

• Improving Teaching and Learning Supports by Addressing the Rhythm of a Year

Technical Aid Packet

• School-Based Mutual Support Groups (For Parents, Staff, and Older Students)
• Volunteers to Help Teachers and School Address Barriers to Learning

Technical Assistance Sampler

• Protective Factors (Resiliency)

Training Tutorial

• Classroom Changes to Enhance & Re-engage Students in Learning

Net Exchange

• School Staff Wellness

Articles

• H. S. Adelman ,& L. Taylor (1998). Involving teachers in collaborative efforts to better address barriers to student learning. Special issue of Journal of Preventing School Failure, 42(2), 55-60M

Teacher Retention
• A Review of the Research Literature on Teacher Recruitment and Retention
• Meeting the Challenge: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Hard-to-Staff Schools. (2007). American Federation of Teachers.
• New Teachers Can't be Successful - and Won't Stay in Teaching - Without Help from Their School. (2006) American Educator, Summer 06
• Reduce Your Losses: Help New Teachers Become Veteran Teachers
• Survival Guide for New Teachers: How New Teachers Can Work Effectively With Veteran Teachers, Parents, Principals, and Teacher Educators
• Teaching for a living: How Teachers See the Profession Today

Collaboration
• Build a School Culture That Nurtures Staff Collaboration and Participation in Decision Making
• Collaboration, Teamwork, and Mentoring
• Developing Effective School Communities
• Framework for Supporting Human Resources Systems in School Districts

Stress
• Resilient Teachers: Resisting Stress and Burnout
• Strategies for Combating Job Stress
• Stress Management Tools and Techniques
• Violence in Communities and Schools: A Stress Reduction Guide for Teachers and other School Staff
• Violence-Related Stress: A Guide for School Staff

Surveys/Statistics
• Teacher Attrition and Mobility: Results from the Teacher Follow-Up Survey, 2004-2005 (2007) National Center for Education Statistics.
• Teacher Attrition and Mobility: Results from the Teacher Follow-Up Survey, 2000-2001 (2004) National Center for Education Statistics.
• To Teach or Not to Teach? Teaching Experience and Preparation Among 1992-1993 Bachelor's Degree Recipients 10 Years After College. (2007) National Center for Education Statistics.

Toolkit and Others
• Teachers Who Learn, Kids Who Achieve
• Teacher Working Conditions Toolkit

Online Videos
• Working With Stress

• About.com: Secondary School Educators: Burnout and Stress Management - Guide Picks
• American Institute of Stress (AIS)
• Center for Anxiety & Stress Treatment
• Hiring (and Keeping) Urban Teachers: A Coordinated Approach to New Teacher Support
• Information and Tips about Stress and Stress Management
• Teachers Helping Teachers

• Banishing Burnout: Six Strategies for Improving Your Relationship with Work. M.P. Leiter, C. Masalach (2005). Josey Bass
• Burnout: The Cost of Caring. C. Maslach (2003). Malor Books.
• Job Burnout. Maslach, C., Schaufeli, W.B., & Leiter, M.P. (2001) Annual Review of Psychology, 52: 397-422.
• Policy Issues: Targeting Teacher Recruitment and Retention Policies for At-Risk Schools. C. Rowland, C. Coble (2005). NCREL. Naperville, Ill.: Learning Point Associates.
• Positive or negative? Peterson, Kent D. (2002). Journal of Staff Development, Summer, 23(3)
• Preventing Burnout and Building Engagement: A Complete Program for Organizational Renewal. Leiter M.P., Malach C (2000). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Stress and stress management in clinical psychology: Findings from a systematic review. Hannigan, B., Edwards, D., & Burnard, P. (2004). Journal of Mental Health. 13,(3), p. 235 - 245.
• A study of the teacher burnout and school psychologist support. Budinick, L.(2006). Proquest.
• Teacher Burnout: A Flickering Flame. Van Horn, J. (2004). Eburon Publishers: Delft. 196pp.
• Teachers Managing Stress and Preventing Burnout: The Professional Health Solution R.A. Roth, Y. Gold (2007). Taylor and Francis.
• Transforming Burnout: A simple Guide to Self-renewal. A. Shelton (2007). Vibrant Press
• Understanding and Preventing Teacher Burnout: A Sourcebook of International Research and Practice. Vandenberghe, R. (Ed.) & Huberman, A.M. (Ed.) (2006). Cambridge University Press: England. 300pp.

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