Does the answer to reducing the teacher workload lie in Daoism?

A middle school teacher’s take away from Laurie Santos’s Happiness Lab, Episode Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Lao Tzu.

There is no need to mention the additional workload the 20/21 school year surprised us teachers with. While admin is coordinating the results of the standards gab analysis, we can already brace for impact for the next school year when it will be out responsibility to magically stuff these academic holes. But even if there was no COVID, we know, there is always something. As far as I am concerned there is no “normal school year”.

Find out how here "not doing", "the rule of 80", "being childish" and "listening and speaking slowly" can reduce your teaching workload next school year.