07/18/2026
CTreeReads is back.
This time, the spotlight is on a book I believe every first-year teacher—and every leader supporting new teachers—should consider reading: Surviving Teacher Burnout by Amy L. Eva, PhD.
New teachers receive plenty of guidance about lesson planning, classroom management, data, and deadlines. They receive far less preparation for the emotional weight of teaching or for recognizing when exhaustion is beginning to affect their patience, relationships, confidence, and decision-making.
Surviving Teacher Burnout offers 52 manageable weekly practices that help educators attend to their well-being while staying connected to their students and their purpose.
What I appreciate most is that the book does not present wellness as another elaborate task teachers must fit into an already crowded schedule. The practices are meant to be realistic and usable.
Of course, individual strategies alone can't fix an unhealthy school system. Leaders still carry the responsibility to look honestly at workload, staffing, expectations, culture, and support — and to keep working to get those right. Self-care matters, but it was never meant to be the whole solution to conditions that call for real, systemic change.
But educators also deserve practical tools they can use today.
At C-Tree Educational Wellness, we believe teacher wellness is not an extra. It shapes the classroom.
Happy adults make happy kids make successful students.