Since the world has faced the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a workforce shortage in many professions, and education is among those professions. Even before the global pandemic, education was seeing worrying levels of shortage, stress, burnout, and attrition. Teachers feel stress from the growing list of different roles and responsibilities they must fill in their job. This creating a rise in teachers feeling burnout, which creates more problems for education such as poorer performing teachers and teachers leaving the profession. Researchers continue look at various ways to treat, reduce, and prevent burnout in several ways. Using Seligman's positive psychology and the PERMA framework for well-being, the purpose of this study is to examine possible relationships between positive psychology traits or positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishment on teacher burnout elements emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and accomplishment. This study used a quantitative approach and survey research methodology. Participants were 145 secondary (6-12) teachers from various public schools in two Midwest States. An ANOVA found that there was a significant difference in positive psychology accomplishment trait between physical education and special education teachers. Pearson correlation coefficients identified the burnout components had a relationship with all positive psychology traits, except for relationships. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that emotional exhaustion may be predicted by gender, positive emotion, relationship, meaning, and accomplishment; depersonalization may be predicted by positive emotion; accomplishment may be predicted by engagement and meaning. Recommendations for teachers (and teacher organizations), school administrators, and school boards are discussed, along with recommendations for future research. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]