Tips to help teachers avoid burnout include not taking so much work home, not taking on too much, accepting what you can and cannot change, leaving on time, not overvolunteering, requesting a change in grade level or school, doing something for yourself, exercising, setting aside time each day for yourself, and getting some rest. (SM)

Presents suggestions to help teachers who must work with difficult principals, offering 10 ideas for how to make meetings with such principals more effective. The paper also notes what to do if the principal is unreachable and describes how four teachers handled their own problems with difficult principals. (SM)