In this episode, you will meet Tim Howarth, Dean at Blackstone Valley Prep High School, an intentionally diverse charter school in Rhode Island. Tim is an operations guru, and each year, he is tasked with making school opening even better than the last, even during a pandemic. As you can see from the episode art, Tim loves every aspect of his job (for real), and he shared his tips and strategies for kicking butt at opening school (hint: prioritizing and using his team)!

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Recent studies revealed that over 50% of teachers and administrators intend to leave their role as soon as they can. What's behind this? Today's episode brings the experience of the school principal to the forefront, because each year, excellent principals choose to leave the role. You'll hear my personal account as well as what I've been told by others.

On this episode, we conclude our roundtable conversation about burnout. You'll remember Debbi, Justin, Jermaine, Jonathan and Kristen from part 2 last week. The roundtable format allowed more perspectives and experiences with burnout to be shared and discussed, creating more opportunities for listeners to relate, learn and grow. We continue to grapple with our own agency when it comes to addressing and preventing burnout in the workplace. You will hear tangible and concrete things we all do to set boundaries and relieve stress, and we get more direct about what educators need NOW.

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Jermaine Sharpe joins me again to co-facilitate a roundtable discussion on workplace burnout. As we enjoy summer, we know that a school year which will be challenging in a new way will be here soon, and it will be as important as ever to protect ourselves as a workforce and communicate to employers what is needed to protect employees from burning out.

On the next two episodes, you will meet:

• Jermaine Sharpe (from last week's episode), senior manager in marketing with over 20 years in the industry,

• Debbi Miceli, a newly retired public school elementary school teacher of 40 years,

• Justin Esgar, Founder and CEO of Virtua Consulting Group, a New York City-based company in its second decade of operation,

• Kristen Wayss, a paraprofessional of 15. years in therapeutic and public early childhood education and

• Jonathan Naumowicz, a secondary special education teacher of 16 years in therapeutic settings and a secondary charter school.

Our guests discuss:

1. How burnout has shown up for them

2. How they recognized it

3. What they've done and continue to do to combat it (for some, it involved leaving their position; for others it involves creating strict boundaries and routines such as walks and creative ways to set time limits on the workday)

and give an honest analysis of how we have come to equate burnout with success and why it needs to change.

They are all relatable, honest and forward-thinking about this topic. Our goal is for listeners to be able to use this and next week's discussion to identify the role burnout has played in their lives or in their employees' lives and take action to alter its course.

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In this episode, you will be introduced to a longtime friend and successful business leader, Jermaine Sharpe. After he recently posted on IG about burnout, I knew it was time to tackle this expanding problem among our workforce. This episode is the first in a series that will examine the impact burnout has, especially on educators and school leaders and provides personal and organizational hacks to curbing this issue. Burnout is not YOUR badge of honor.

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In this episode you will be introduced to DissectEd and its host, Dr. Michaela Keegan Jedele. You'll learn what makes this education podcast different from others and what to expect on upcoming episodes.