Being a principal can be a very stressful job.  You put in long days, including evening and weekend hours. You are responsible for the wellbeing of hundreds of students, each of which has their own particular set of needs.  Add to that a mountain of paperwork and meetings, queries and complaints from parents, playground and lunchtime duties and you end up with the responsibilities of a small corporation. Because of all this, the potential for large amounts of stress and burnout is high. Apart from the palpable physical discomfort that stress produces, there are additional unwanted effects that can affect…

As a principal, among your many responsibilities lies the management of your teaching staff. You must do your best to ensure that your teachers have adequate resources and guidance to help the students get the best education you can offer. But we sometimes forget that people aren’t robots or units of predictable output. We may overlook that people can slip into periods of time where they just go through the motions and only give the bare necessity of effort and presence of mind. And of course, teachers are just as susceptible to this behavior as anyone.  Therefore as the manager…