📝 Episode Synopsis

For generations, education has celebrated the teacher who arrives first, stays last, answers emails at midnight, and sacrifices everything in the name of serving students. But what if those habits aren't signs of dedication at all?

In this episode, Dr. Joey Weisler speaks with educator, speaker, and author Dr. Yvette Dixon-Ledford, author of Teacher By Day: A No-Guilt Guide to Boundaries, Balance, and Bliss, to challenge one of education's most dangerous assumptions: that caring more must always mean doing more, and often beyond contractual hours.

Together, they explore teacher burnout, professional boundaries, emotional labor, school culture, and the subtle ways educators begin tying their worth to exhaustion. From "teacher tired" to after-hours expectations, grading overload, diffi ...