Name: The Sustainable Teaching Week
Brand: Mat Manual

Key Facts

Art	For Instructors
Family	Instructors
Level	all-levels
Format	plan
Topics	teaching, administration
Audience	instructor

PreviewThe opening of the guide

Mat Manual companion guide to "Running on Empty: Instructor Burnout Is a Load Problem." Print it. The article makes the case. This book runs the audit, rebuilds the week, builds the coverage ladder, and prints the gauges to watch each month.

School: ______________________________ Term: ______________________________ Instructor: ______________________________

THE STANDING RULES OF THIS BOOK ☐ The audit is honest or it is nothing. Hours are counted as they are lived, not as the timetable flatters them. ☐ Rest is scheduled like rent: fixed, first, and not traded away in a busy week. ☐ Coverage is built one duty at a time, to a written standard, never by handing over a whole class and hoping. ☐ A gauge in the red is data, not a verdict on anyone's dedication. The response to data is redesign, not exhortation. ☐ The head instructor's own training appears in this book's plans as infrastructure, and it is cut last, after everything else has been cut first.

Part 1: The Load Audit

Step 1: The class inventory. List every class in the week. For each, write the teacher and the true load: planning minutes, mat minutes, aftermath minutes (questions, parent talks, notes, follow-ups).

Part 1: The Load Audit

Class	Day and time	Teacher	Plan (min)	Teach (min)	Aftermath (min)	True total
______	______	______	______	______	______	______
______	______	______	______	______	______	______
______	______	______	______	______	______	______
______	______	______	______	______	______	______
______	______	______	______	______	______	______
______	______	______	______	______	______	______
______	______	______	______	______	______	______
______	______	______	______	______	______	______

Step 2: The hidden blocks. Add the work that has no slot.

Part 1: The Load Audit

Block	Times per week	Minutes each	Weekly total	Who does it
Enrollment messages and replies	______	______	______	______
Billing and payment follow-up	______	______	______	______
Scheduling and changes	______	______	______	______
Cleaning and setup	______	______	______	______
Events, gradings, preparation	______	______	______	______
Social media and marketing	______	______	______	______
Your own training (count it: it is load, and it is also the repair)	______	______	______	______

Step 3: The verdict. Total the week per person. This book's working ceilings, drawn from the pattern in the instructor research: a head instructor carrying more than about 20 true teaching-load hours a week on top of administration is spending reserves, whatever the timetable says. A school where one person carries more than 80 percent of the total teaching load has no resilience, whatever the total is. Write your numbers where you can see them:

Part 1: The Load Audit

Person	True teaching hours	Admin hours	Share of teaching	Verdict: sustainable / watch / redesign
______	______	______	______ %	______
______	______	______	______ %	______
______	______	______	______ %	______

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