The meeting was attended by Marina Borovskaya, President of the SFedU, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and Vladimir Kirik, Director of the SFedU Academy of Psychology and Pedagogy.

The meeting discussed social, economic, organizational, pedagogical, psychophysiological and other factors that determine the volume and structure of total teacher employment in Russian and foreign schools.

In his opening remarks, Mikhail Levitsky, Chairman of the Scientific Council on Economics, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, noted that the actual teaching load of teachers in most regions of the Russian Federation significantly exceeds the standard level of pedagogical work at a salary rate of 18 hours per week (for subject teachers). This leads to an increase in the intensity of the processes of psycho-emotional burnout of teachers. Mikhail Lvovich also explained that the current standard was established back in 1936.

Tatiana Bokova, Professor of the Russian Academy of Education, Deputy Director of the Institute of Foreign Languages of the Moscow City Pedagogical University, delivered the main report "Features of optimizing teacher workload in Russian and foreign schools". Among the effective foreign practices in this area are the gradual reduction of the workload of teachers of pre-retirement age, the creation of a "teacher's savings account", as well as psychological assistance services for teachers.

Marina Borovskaya, President of SFedU, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, proposed to develop and implement a pilot project on the basis of the education system of the Rostov region and the South of Russia to study and optimize the workload of teaching staff. Vladimir Kirik, Director of the SFedU Academy of Psychology and Pedagogy, noted that such a pilot project could be supported within the Educational Cluster of Southern Russia.

The expert community supported the SFedU's initiative to organize a regional pilot site for the development of methodology and tools for optimizing the educational workload of teaching staff.