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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.
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
- Figure 1.1: Priority Score Worksheet
- Figure 1.3: Thinking and Productivity Styles Reflection
- Figure 1.11: Your Ikigai
- Figure 1.13: Four Archetypes Reflection
- Figure 1.15: Personality and Temperament Self-Reflection Chart
- SMART Goal Template
- The Why of My Goal Process
- Progress Report
- Concern and Influence Organizer
- Values Organizer
- The Big Picture (Staff Chart)
Chapter 2
- Figure 2.2: Role-Playing Scenarios
- Figure 2.3: Psychological Safety Assessments Chart
- Figure 2.8: Coaching Referral and Contact Log
- Figure 2.11: My Boss Under a Microscope Organizer
- Figure 2.12: Contributions Chart
- Figure 2.13: Four Ds Process Worksheet
- Emergency Procedures One-Pager
- Law and Policy Reference Guide
- Strengths Self-Evaluation
- Strengths Assessments Organizer
- Questions to Prepare for Being Coached
- Critical Friends Process Worksheet
Chapter 3
- Figure 3.1: Mindfulness Techniques Organizer
- Figure 3.2: Office Yoga Poses
- Figure 3.3: Six Levels of Listening Survey
- Figure 3.4: Listening Blocks Worksheet
- Figure 3.5: Feedback Tendency Tracker
- Figure 3.10: Grit Score Reflection
- Right Voice, Right Time Worksheet
- Stop Light Grid
- Setting Boundaries Worksheet
Chapter 4
- Figure 4.1: Pathways to Enhancing Your Mindset
- Figure 4.4: Decide, Enact, Analyze, Reflect
- Figure 4.5: Unplug and Disconnect Tracker
- Figure 4.6: Nature Log
- Figure 4.8: Accomplishments Checklist
- Cognitive Reframing Worksheet
- Ladder of Inference Process
- I Honor Cards
- Celebrations Questionnaire
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.
Websites
- The Action Priority Matrix
- Personal Productivity Style
- 4 Working Styles
- The 6 Work Styles
- MBTI Personality Test
- Big Five Personalist Test
- Keirsey Temperament Sorter
- High 5 Test
- 9 Strength Finding Tests and Assessments
- The Strengths Wheel
- The Depression Files Blog and Podcast
- Angela Duckworth Grit Scale
- What’s My Mindset
- Carol Dweck’s Growth vs. Fixed Mindset Assessment
- Gregorc’s Learning Styles
- International School Safety Institute
- Individuals With Disabilities Education Act
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
- Education Law and Policy, Canada
- Education Policy, Australia
- Statutory Policies for Schools, United Kingdom
- National School Reform Faculty
- School Superintendents Association
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
- Consortium for School Networking
- National Association of Elementary School Principals
- National Education Association
- International Literacy Association
- International Society for Technology in Education
- National Art Education Association
- National Business Education Association
- National Council for the Social Studies
- National Council of Teachers of English
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Self-Compassion Survey
- Dare to Lead List of Values
