Being a principal is less about having all the answers and more about creating the conditions for your team to do great work. But with teachers to support, families to respond to, student needs to manage, meetings to attend, data to analyze, and plans for the future, it is easy for school...
Category - The Practical Principal
Strengthening the Principal and Assistant Principal Relationship
The principal and assistant principal relationship carries a campus, yet it rarely gets the same deliberate attention as the rest of the staff. Once...
Mastering the Grid: The Texas Secondary Principal’s Guide to Master Scheduling
Every educator knows the unwritten rule of school leadership: your master schedule is your true campus budget. It is not just a spreadsheet of names...
Summer creates space to look beyond the day-to-day demands of running a campus and focus on the work that shapes the year ahead. While your to-do...
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” Antoine St. Exupéry It’s the end of the school year! Congratulations on...
End-of-Year Closeout: Creating Systems for Continuity and Growth
The school year is winding down, and like many principals, you are already thinking about summer, staffing, and the many tasks that come with an end...
Teacher Appreciation Week is right around the corner, the first week of May. And if you are anything like most school leaders, you are already buried...
A Conversation with Mrs. Jofee’ Tremain, Principal at East Fort Worth Montessori Academy One of the most common questions Texas principals ask about...
During a recent interview, Anna Warren, a veteran school leader and principal coach in Central Texas, explained that principals have always managed...
As any leader who has been on a campus for any period of time knows, school leadership is full of moments that you didn’t plan for on your...
