Why do I lift every teacher but never feel like one myself?

You spend your days making other teachers better. You write the plans they use. You fix the lessons that fail. You carry the weight so every room but your own runs smooth. Somewhere in all that lifting, you stopped teaching. You cannot remember the last time you stood in front of students yourself. The last time you did the work, not just managed someone else doing it. This is not burnout. You are not broken, nor tired in some deep way that needs fixing. You have simply spent years pointed outward — toward other people's classrooms, other people's growth. The muscle that makes you a teacher has gone quiet from disuse. You and your team feel this together, even if none of you has said it aloud. Each of you props up someone else's work. None of you stands in your own. That is a problem you can solve this week. But only if you stop waiting for the role to hand it back to you.