More than four decades after Paula Jorde Bloom’s landmark first edition, the early childhood field is still asking the question she set out to answer: how do we build careers — and programs — that sustain the people who care for young children, instead of consuming them? This revised edition preserves the spine of Paula’s original work — its three-part frame of time, space, and people; its practical exercises; its insistence on personal agency — while bringing the science up to date. It folds in what we now know about chronic stress, the Maslach dimensions of burnout, and the job demands-resources model, and it adds a new closing chapter on building a burnout-resistant program. Written for classroom teachers, directors, coaches, and the policymakers who support them, Avoiding Burnout offers a clear-eyed diagnosis, a guided self-assessment, and a generous toolkit of strategies for thriving in some of the most consequential work any adult can do.
2026, 155 pages, soft cover, perfect bound, 7 x 10, ISBN: 979-8-9932517-2-1
