“Find colleagues that they they really jive with, who they can bounce ideas off of, or just go chat with, even if it's not about school (…) is, I think, really, really important. Making sure to not spend prep and lunch totally alone is really important. I think the isolation factor is really a big one."
“The year before last, when I came back from my maternity leave the first time, was a very difficult year for a whole slew of reasons, but one of them was that I didn't have my co-teacher that I was used to teaching with (…) I felt very alone. People in the school didn't have the same prep as me. I think that feeling alone was one of the most difficult parts of the year. Things started to get a lot better when I had a co-teacher again.”
“If it's not the people you work most directly with, finding somebody else in the school or looking for a school where the principal seems like somebody who is open to helping you is really important.”