Many principals aren’t burning out because they’re “not resilient enough”. They’re burning out because the leadership load is designed to leak into everything: repeated decisions, constant escalation, unresolved conflict, and no cadence that holds under term pressure. I’ve written a practical 60‑day reset for principals and SLTs: Clarity. Agreements. Load. Momentum. No glossy initiative. Just a term-friendly way to reduce friction and protect wellbeing while keeping standa

When you’re good… but (informally) not yet “leadership material” You can be excellent at your job and still feel invisible in the rooms that matter. You bring the detail. You deliver. You do the thinking. And then, in the senior meeting, you hear yourself doing one (or more) of these: over‑explaining to prove you’ve done the work speaking quickly, filling silence, softening your point backing down too early when someone senior pushes saying nothing… and kicking yourself after