by Jessica Cabeen | Aug 21, 2025 | Principal in Balance
Bright Eyes. Big Ideas. Bold Intentions. As the school year starts up, we enter with plans, priorities, and opportunities to build upon what we started the year before. But let’s be honest—these past few years have stretched us in ways we never imagined. The...
by Jessica Cabeen | Jul 22, 2025 | Principal in Balance
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...
by Jessica Cabeen | Jul 19, 2025 | Permission to Rest, Principal in Balance
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....
by Jessica Cabeen | Jun 21, 2025 | Principal in Balance
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...
by Jessica Cabeen | May 17, 2025 | Permission to Rest, Principal in Balance
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...
by Jessica Cabeen | May 9, 2025 | Principal in Balance
When I wrote Principal in Balance, it was inspired by a moment in May 2021. I was deep in post-COVID leadership, juggling end-of-year chaos as a principal and the everyday joys (and challenges) of parenting two teenagers, one of whom I was racing to watch at a track...
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