#PrincipalHack roundup: 5 ideas your fellow leaders love

As your school year gets under way, we wanted to share some favorite #PrincipalHacks from your fellow leaders, covering everything from family connections to must-have supplies.

Thank you for everything you’re doing to support teachers and students right now – from big undertakings to small, meaningful “hacks.”

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How our school went phone-free – and got our kids back

by  |  7.29.25

I’m the principal of a small public charter school with a STEM focus, so technology is a big part of our work. But emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, my teachers and I started to feel that technology had completely overwhelmed teaching and learning.  We were one-to-one with Chromebooks with an “off and away phone policy,”, […]

Harness the power of the 5-minute staff check-in

by  |  7.22.25

At the end of my first year as a middle school principal, I thought I’d done an amazing job. It was May 2020, and I felt like I was on my way to the Principalship Hall of Fame: leading through pandemic conditions none of us had ever experienced before, putting structures in place for student […]