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  • Time Management for Principals, So Time Doesn't Manage Them

    Time Management for Principals

    Time management for principals can be tough to figure out, but it's important to be intentional about managing your time. Here's how to do it.

  • Books

  • 5 Time Management Tips for Principals

    5 Time Management Tips

    Thomas Edison once said, "Time is the only thing we can't afford to lose." As a school principal you don't need a famous inventor to tell you that.

  • The Principal's Guide to Time Management: Instructional Leadership in the Digital Age

    Principals guide to time management

    Make the most of your time and your leadership. Is your school's vision getting buried under paperwork? Are goals constantly pushed aside for small emergencies? If you spend more time picking up pieces than putting them together, this is your book. Written by seasoned school principals, this plan of action will get you back to the instructional leadership that made you want this job in the first place. 

  • The Ten-Minute Principal: Free Up Your Time to Focus on Leadership

    10 Min Principal

    Rebuilding your day--How ten minutes can make the difference between ordinary and fantastic leadership. A principal’s enthusiastic vision is often thwarted by daily demands. There never seems time for carefully laid plans. But what if you made the most of ten-minute blocks scattered through your day? Could you make progress? This book says Yes! and will help you improve, but not overwhelm yourself or staff. It will show you how to intentionally use ten-minute opportunities to consider, kickstart, and execute your vision. Based on six pillars of school leadership, vision, relationships, trust, efficacy, student-centeredness, and instructional knowledge.

  • Videos

  • Get Organized! Time Management for School Leaders

    Get Organized

    In today’s world, we’re often overwhelmed by our digital devices, stacks of paper, and constant interruptions. Get Organized! outlines a complete organizational system for the busy school leader. Providing you with simple tools and techniques to bring order and control to your personal and professional life, this book will increase your productivity and decrease your stress. With Get Organized! you can spend your time on what matters most—your school and your students.

  • Managing People, Data, and Processes

  • Five Keys to Time Management

  • Podcasts

  • Frank Buck - Get Organized: Time Management for School Leaders

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    Frank Buck joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book, Get Organized: Time Management for School Leaders.

  • Managing Your Day with Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang

    Managing Your Day

    Most new school leaders I meet explain how overwhelming the list of to-do’s can be. What are the solutions? Well, Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang provide a wealth of information on resources and practices that work in managing your time.

  • Blogs

  • Top 6 Effective Time Management Tips for School Administrators

    Podcast

    Here’s how to make the most of your work day at school. Why is time management important for schools? Time management tips are usually doled out to students – to help them study better, prepare well for exams, or just to help them learn this important life skill within a structured environment. So why would something like time management be important for school administrators? 

  • Do It, Delegate It, Dump It

    As a leader you are responsible for it all but you are not required to do it all.

  • CEO Time Management: 16 business leaders on how they stay focused and motivated each day

    With the average tech CEO working 14 hours a day, proper time management is the difference between success and work-life balance or failure and burnout.

  • The Eisenhower matrix: How to manage your tasks with EISENHOWER

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  • How to Increase Your Productivity

    Increase Productivity

    Throughout August, I’ve been bringing you tips on how you can prepare for the school year by prepping your classrooms and workspaces for a clear mind and maximum efficiency. Now we’re at the point where your kids are returning to school, it’s time to get serious about how you will make decisions effectively and efficiently for the rest of the year.

  • The 5 AM Miracle Podcast with Jeff Sanders

    5 AM Miracle

    The 5 AM Miracle Podcast with Jeff Sanders is a weekly show dedicated to dominating your day before breakfast and dramatically improving your productivity.

     

     

  • The School Principal ‘Time-Clawback’ Method

    Time. Such a precious resource, yet most of us take it for granted. How can we get a better understanding of what our time is really worth? School principals value their time because they’ve started to understand a brutal truth: There is NO silver bullet to winning your time back.

     

     

  • Time Management for Leaders

    Do you need more time? Use these 5 tips to find time for the important things - like coaching.