What happens when you still love teaching, but you're no longer sure you can keep doing it?

For many music educators, burnout doesn't happen because they stopped caring. It happens because they care so much that they keep giving more: more time, more energy, more emotional capacity, and more of themselves.

Until eventually, there's not much left.

In this episode of Band Director Boot Camp, Lesley Moffat talks with educator and author Denisse Santos-Gooden about her new book, Why Good Teachers Quit and How Not To, and the difficult realities that push talented, dedicated educators toward the breaking point.

Denisse knows that experience personally. After 30 years in education, she began recognizing the physical and emotional signs that something needed to change. Her health was suffering. Her mind wouldn't ...