by Jessica Cabeen | Dec 13, 2025 | Permission to Rest, Principal in Balance, Unconventional Leadership
Before you go…I know—you saw this title and panicked. What did I forget? What still needs to be done? This isn’t about adding one more thing to your plate. It’s about resisting the urge to mentally sprint into 2026 before 2025 is actually finished. December tempts...
by Jessica Cabeen | Nov 22, 2025 | Permission to Rest, Principal in Balance, Slow Leadership
Last month, I shared the truth I didn’t want to admit: that the hardest part of a long-awaited, bucket-list trip wasn’t the planning, the packing, or the travel. It was the idea of turning off my email. Well, I did it. And here’s what happened when I finally...
by Jessica Cabeen | Oct 28, 2025 | Principal in Balance
Next month, I get to go on a bucket-list trip—one that’s been more than three years in the making. In preparation, I’ve been checking the weather, writing out my packing list (including the stack of books I plan to take), and mapping out day-by-day activities. And...
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....
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