173. Confronting Teacher Burnout with Erin Sponaugle

About this episode

In this episode, Dr. Erin Sponaugle discusses her journey as an educator and offers insights on overcoming teacher burnout.

Dr Erin Sponaugle has been teaching for 23 years. She’s a national board certified teacher and a former West Virginia Teacher of the Year. She’s also the author of two children's books and recently published Teachaholic, a book about overcoming teacher burnout based on her own experience. Erin is also the host of the Next Chapter for Teachers podcast. In this episode, we talk to Erin about her educator journey, writing books, most importantly, how teachers can avoid burnout. For all links and resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.educatorforever.com/episode173 .

People in this episode

Host: Lily Jones

Guest: Dr Erin Sponaugle

Topics covered

• teacher burnout
• education
• writing
• self-improvement
• career advice

Keywords

• teacher burnout
• education
• Dr Erin Sponaugle
• Teachaholic
• self-improvement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Next Chapter for Teachers, West Virginia Teacher of the Year

Books & works: Teachaholic

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