As the title suggests, this post considers caring for teachers, and is presented through the theory of caring offered by bell hooks. Three types of caring are considered: that of teachers for each other, of students for teachers, and of institutions for teachers. I think there’s a bit of tension in the idea of teaching as an act of service (as in hooks: “a practice of giving that eschews the notion of reward”) and the idea of teachers requiring care from those they serve, especially (as Bali notes) in recent circumstances where burn-out is an issue. I think I would be more comfortable with an ethics of caring that applies generally (for example, not demanding people push themselves too far or endanger themselves) rather than the creation of a specific responsibility to care that accrues when someone cares for you (which, would in effect, make caring necessarily reciprocal, and hence, transactional).