Reducing Burnout, Retaining Teachers:
An Award-Winning Charter School Shares How
The School
Beehive Science & Technology Academy is a STEM-forward charter district in Sandy, Utah, serving 762 students in grades K–12. With families from 48 countries speaking roughly 60 languages, Beehive’s leadership is mission-driven about tools that genuinely help teachers and not add to their load. As the number one high school in Utah for the last five years by U.S. News and World Report, they have an imperative to keep good teachers. When the leadership team evaluated Socrait in spring 2025, their test was simple: Is this another burden, or will it actually help teachers?
By May 2026, 24 teachers had run more than 3,500 sessions. The executive director put it plainly:
“Once we gave the teachers Socrait, they insisted on keeping it. It’s improving behavior, it’s improving communication — it’s changed the focus from the negative to the positive and improved school culture.”
— Dr. Hanifi Oguz, Executive Director
The Problem
Secondary principal Halis Kablan described the challenge that school leaders across the country know well: the administrative weight of work after class ends, including behavior documentation, parent communication, attendance, follow-up, was pushing critical work into nights and weekends. It wasn’t sustainable.
“Behavior is one of the most energy-intensive parts of teaching. Even if Socrait only handled behavior tracking and parent communication, that alone would be a huge help.”
— Halis Kablan, Secondary Principal
Kablan also had a non-negotiable requirement before any tool could go into classrooms: teacher trust and autonomy. “Teachers control whether administrators can see their data,“ he noted. “That’s empowering. We trust our teachers.“
What Leadership Is Seeing
From teacher coaching to behavior change, Socrait has started to impact the classroom at Beehive in ways the leadership is noticing. In an interview with Keith DeBono, Secondary Vice Principal, he shared that the impacts of behavior change across the school are measurable.
“Through a variety of changes this year, including Socrait adoption, we’ve been able to reduce our behavior issues 70% this year.”
— Keith DeBono, Secondary Vice Principal
DeBono described teacher coaching as a huge area of focus for him, “especially burnout prevention and teacher retention.” He shared that he’s so drawn to Socrait as a coaching professional, because it uses a proven formula for success; increase the power of teachers and decrease the workload.
Teachers using Socrait support the school’s goal of being more proactive with communication with more detailed and accurate accounts of classroom behavior.
“Socrait is helping our teachers provide more accurate information about what’s happening in class. We can better pinpoint where interventions are needed and make adjustments that can save time and the mental health of teachers.”
— Kim Hamilton, Vice Principal
What Teachers Found
Before Socrait: 30 minutes of email dread. With Socrait: 5 minutes of editing and done
Teachers describe Socrait as a “second brain” that captures what would otherwise be lost in the blur of a fast-moving class period. A sense of relief, a safety net, and a reduction of dread all were key themes in teachers’ experiences. “I was dreading writing emails home and expected the emails to take at least 30 minutes of my planning time. I used Socrait to draft a response for me. I edited 2 sentences of the 3 emails and sent them off in about 5 minutes. The best part is that the emails were neutral and professional when I was emotionally charged from the frustration,” Megan Theorine
On cognitive load and memory
The most immediate relief teachers reported was mental: Socrait takes on the remembering so they don’t have to.
“It helps me keep my crazy brain a little more clear. I’ll say something in class and forget about it two seconds later, and it keeps a good log to remind me what I’m doing.”
— Megan Theorine, Middle School Math
“Socrait did help me remember where I was in my lesson plans with each class. I have 3 sections of 9th grade, so I can’t quite remember… did we go over the poem, or didn’t we? All I have to do is open Socrait, look at the summary, and I know exactly where I left off. It helps with the continuity of teaching.”
— Kayden McInnis, High School English
On behavior tracking and parent communication
For secondary teachers, warnings and praises are where Socrait earns its keep — especially when those conversations have to move beyond the classroom.
“The nicest feature is the warnings and praises — it’s by far the best thing, especially for middle school.”
— John O’Connor, Middle & High School Social Studies
“Socrait even gave me a sample email to send to parents with information from what really happened in class. I would never have been able to retain that information myself.”
— Kelli Chavez, Middle & High School Math
Usage At Beehive (Aug 2025 – May 2026)
Beehive is now expanding Socrait to its elementary school, with a focus on broader teacher adoption and strengthening behavior documentation practices from earlier grades.
What This Means for Innovative Schools
Beehive’s experience points to something broader: teachers don’t need more tools to learn. They need tools that work within how they already teach. Socrait doesn’t require behavior change. Teachers talk. Socrait listens. The data is there at the end of class.
For schools that attract mission-driven educators, the stakes are high when those teachers burn out. Socrait is one lever that addresses the problem at its source: the administrative cognitive load that accumulates during live instruction.
“Socrait is a frictionless tool that makes it so much easier for teachers. The more you can save teachers’ time and energy, the better it’s going to be for all students.”
— Halis Kablan, Secondary Principal
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Join the Research Pilot
Socrait is actively onboarding innovative charter schools for its Fall Research Pilot. Schools can join by May 20th to try Socrait for free and advance research evaluating teacher stress, cognitive load, and career sustainability. The Research Pilot includes five weeks of Socrait for five teachers, one-hour training and onboarding, and pre- and post- survey data collection. It’s a great opportunity to see if Scorait is a good fit for your school to support your teachers.
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