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Protecting Your Peace: Managing Digital Distraction as a Leader
Because the break you're craving isn't on your screen. It starts innocently enough. You pick up your phone to check a message…Five minutes later, you're deep into a thread, a reel, or a "quick scroll" through someone else’s vacation photos, professional updates, or...
Reprieve Isn’t Weakness—It’s Wisdom
How Educators Can Release the Guilt and Reclaim Their Summer How are you doing?No, really. How are you really doing? Not the version of the answer you’d give a colleague in the grocery store aisle. The real one. The one you whisper to yourself when no one’s around....
Why I Wrote Principal in Balance—and Why It Still Matters
A few years ago, I had what I call an “unexpected Friday.”The kind of day where every demand collided—emails, master schedules, parent calls, and pandemic logistics. But instead of pushing through like I always did, I paused. I logged off.I watched my son run track.I...
May Fog is Real—Almost There, But Exhausted
May Fog.It’s not a formal diagnosis, but every educator I know knows it when it hits. It’s that moment in the school year—usually around the second or third week of May—when everything feels heavier. Emails blur together. The to-do list is longer than the school...
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Jessica is the Principal of Alternative Educations Programs in Austin, Minnesota. Previously, she was the principal of Ellis Middle School in Austin, Minnesota, and the principal of the “Happiest Place in Southeastern Minnesota,” the Woodson Kindergarten Center.
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