How to reduce teacher burnout

"Flint makes it easier for teachers to personalize lessons and save time on routine tasks. Students get to use AI more as a study partner - not just for answers, but for guiding their thinking and building confidence."

Why this matters

A US teacher works a median of 54 hours a week, and spends about 25 of them teaching (Chase Mielke, ASCD, citing the 2022 Merrimack College Teacher Survey). Grading, planning and paperwork fill most of the rest. When a school adds a tool to cut that work, the principal usually learns whether it helped from the staff survey in spring.

What teacher burnout is, and how to reduce it

The World Health Organization describes burnout as the result of chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed, with three signs: exhaustion, mental distance from or cynicism about the job, and reduced professional efficacy (WHO). In RAND's 2025 State of the American Teacher survey, 53% of US public school teachers reported feelings of burnout. Hours worked outside the contract and administrative work outside teaching were each a top-three source of job stress for 24% to 29% of teachers (RAND).

Mielke's advice is to cut the work around teaching, such as the 3 to 5 hours a week of grading and feedback, rather than the teaching itself. In a Gallup and Walton Family Foundation survey of 2,232 public school teachers in spring 2025, teachers who used AI at least weekly said it saved them 5.9 hours a week. Only 32% used it that often.

1. Give routine grading and tagging to AI
2. Keep the teacher's judgment on every grade
3. Check which teachers are using it, and what students got out of it

An administrator can't ask 40 teachers every week what they handed off. Flint's school analytics count it for you.

How to see the time Flint saves your teachers

In Flint, open Admin, then Analytics. On the Outcomes page, Flint did the heavy lifting counts the work Sparky, Flint's AI, did for teachers: student submissions it graded against the teacher's rubric, activities it matched to standards, and standards it set up from a preset list or your own curriculum documents. The By class table below lists each class with its teacher.

The Usage page shows Teacher vs. Student Usage for each day and the Top Activity Creators among teachers, so you can see who has started and who hasn't. Each chart there has a Download as CSV button, and the chat button at the top lets you ask Sparky about the numbers.

How to see whether students are meeting their goals

The Outcomes page opens with Does more Flint mean more learning? A gap closes each time a student reaches "met" on a standard.

Try it with your school for free

Flint is free for up to 80 users, counting students, teachers and administrators. Create a school, invite a few teachers by email, and open Admin, then Analytics. The Usage page fills in as soon as teachers and students start working. The Outcomes page needs standards: a teacher adopts them in a class's Curriculum tab, then turns on Auto-grading with a rubric in an activity's settings so Sparky grades the work.

For more on what school leaders see in Flint, read Flint for school leaders.