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Subject: 🫠Why you can't just coast
Solutions for your Sunday Scaries
You didn’t get into teaching to coast through the work week.
But you also didn’t get into teaching to give up your entire spring planning for a group of students who are already mentally on summer vacation.
This is the trap. You’re too tired to build something great, but too conscientious to settle for something mediocre. So you end up doing a joyless version of both – cobbling together activities that don’t quite fit, feeling unprepared, white-knuckling through the days, and starting summer with a sense of relief that it’s finally over.
Every year. Same cycle.
You’re not the only one in it. Teachers across online communities describe those final weeks the same way: less like a victory lap and more like classroom triage. A RAND Corporation study found that 53% of teachers reported severe burnout in 2025, with end-of-year stress flagged as a significant pressure point. You probably didn’t need a study to tell you that. You’re living it right now.
The way out of the end-of-year trap isn’t to work harder. It’s to have a better plan.
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