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...
by Jessica Cabeen | Apr 30, 2025 | Permission to Rest, Principal in Balance
Each year around this time, I find myself standing at the same familiar crossroads. The calendar says “almost there.”My mind says “hold on tight.”And my body says… “are you sure we’re going to make it?” May has a way of sneaking up on school leaders.It’s...
by Jessica Cabeen | Apr 5, 2025 | Principal in Balance
Lately, I’ve been moving fast.Maybe you have too. Between deadlines, emails, and the never-ending list of “just one more thing,” I caught myself doing what so many of us in leadership do—pushing forward without pausing long enough to notice how far I’ve actually come....
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