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The Principal’s Backpack

Tips and Tools for Managing Yourself (So You Can Manage Everything Else)

Purposeful self-management is key to being an effective school leader. This experiential memoir offers research-grounded tips and tools for managing yourself—so you can manage everything else. Get organized, find your purpose, know your strengths, reflect, and celebrate. This book will help you do it all.

Benefits

  • Create a mental map for health and well-being with tips on getting organized, setting goals, decision making, and finding purpose.
  • Focus on psychological safety, know the laws, discover strengths, create a network, and study the boss.
  • Benefit from a wide variety of reproducible templates, handouts, models, paradigms, strategies, inventories, activities, and surveys.
  • Build tactics on self-management and being mindful, staying calm, keeping balance, using listening skills, expressing oneself, and stretching beyond limitations.
  • Understand effective, realistic ways to engage in physical and emotional self-care.
  • Learn how to unpack the events of the day by giving oneself some grace, having moments of self-reflection, laughing about it, recharging, and celebrating.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Mapping Your Route
Chapter 2: Packing Your Bag
Chapter 3: Navigating the Trail
Chapter 4: Unpacking Your Bag

STUDY GUIDE

REPRODUCIBLES

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

SUGGESTED RESOURCES

Books

  • DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., & Mattos, M. (2016). Learning by doing: A handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work® (3rd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
  • Conzemius, A., & O’Neill, J. (2014). The handbook for SMART school teams: Revitalizing best practices for collaboration (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
  • DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., & Mattos, M. (2016). Learning by doing: A handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.

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