Ask any school administrator to say something about his or her teachers and how they have handled things during the past year, as a global pandemic undermined just about everything they had been used to as educators, and hear what they say.

Some probably would use words like “resourceful” or “amazing,” maybe “resilient” or “incredible.” Many probably wouldn’t use words like “frazzled” or “shattered” or “discouraged,” even though there likely have been plenty of times when many teachers…