Levelling Up Your School Administration Skills

Being a school principal is a challenging job, with many pressures. You want to your school to have positive staff morale, so that staff can be genuinely happy to be there, doing their best job with the students. As a school leader, you know that their work reflects back on you.

You likely became a principal to have an important impact on education – and that revolves around a multitude of factors: the teachers, students and their families, and even the entire community.

Here are some helpful articles to enhance your school leadership. These resources will help you support teachers while maintaining the values of the school district you serve.

Effective School Leadership

How to Be an Effective Principal (Elementary)

How to Deal With Difficult Teachers as a Principal

Supporting Teachers with Classroom Management

7 Creative Ways to Empower Teachers

How To Help Teachers with Classroom Management as a School Principal

Best Classroom Management Books

Supporting Teacher Mental Health and Wellbeing

What to Do About Teachers Being Bullied By Parents (For Teachers and Administrators)

How Does Teacher Burnout Affect Students? From an Ex Teacher

Fun Ways to Boost Teacher Morale

12 Hard Truths About Why Teachers Are Quitting

Are Students Bullying Teachers?

Excellent Further Reading for School Principals

Dare to Lead by Brené Brown. This book will help strengthen your leadership skills by having more honest, difficult conversations with staff that could lead to real growth in your school

Hidden Potential by Adam Grant. This fascinating read will help you find and detect potential in your staff, and in the students they serve. It also touches on growth mindset and how schools can implement it

The Anxious Generation by Johnathan Haidt. Learn from a psychologist, and all the science that has been conducted on Generation Z, why schools should aim to go truly phone-free

The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley. Learn the secret behind how other countries in the world have supported intrinsic motivation and growth mindset in the classroom