Teaching is often called a noble profession, but it can also be a lonely one. Unlike most workplaces where adults collaborate daily with colleagues, many teachers spend the majority of their time in classrooms with students, having little contact with other adults. That isolation contributes not only to feelings of loneliness but also to burnout and compassion fatigue, the emotional exhaustion that comes from carrying student challenges alone. But what if we stopped treating teaching as an individual pursuit and started treating it like what it truly is: a team sport?
