If you as a school leader are striving to lead your team forward, mastering effective check-ins should be at the top of your priority list. CheckBox Pro believes this for three main reasons. First, check-ins dominate school principals’ and superintendents’ schedules. To spend that much of your time being underproductive can hamstring your entire week. Second, poor check-ins easily sap your emotional energy, leading you to dread time with the staff members who are looking up to you most. And finally, we believe there’s no better way to build rapport, offer support, and continue progress on goals than weekly check-ins. Leaning on our experience with incredible school leaders across the nation, we’ll cover how you can enhance your check-in processes, using resources like Asana, structured agendas, and a human-centered approach to make every meeting count.

Being a school leader is a demanding and rewarding role in itself, but when you add parenting young children to the mix, the challenges and joys of life reach new heights. The juggling act of managing a school and a family can be overwhelming, but it's also an incredible learning experience.

As we approach the holidays, and the pressure to perform both at work and at home increases, we reached out to some of our talented and humble school leaders for advice.