In districts across the country, professional development season is in full swing. Schedules are filling with sessions on instructional frameworks, classroom management, and data-driven strategies. But one critical issue continues to be overlooked—one that quietly undermines all the others:

Educators are exhausted. And pedagogy won’t fix burnout.

We don’t have a professional development problem.
We have a human sustainability problem.

The assumption that more training will automatically lead t...