Books & Resources
Books and private resources for the parts of school leadership nobody prepares you for — the pressure, the doubt, the difficult conversations, the loneliness, and everything you carry home.
Featured Book
The Lonely Office
The Hidden Emotional Cost of School Leadership
You can be surrounded by people all day and still feel completely alone.
The Lonely Office explores the emotional side of leading a school — the decisions you replay at night, the things you cannot always tell your staff, the expectations you carry, and the quiet cost of always being the person expected to know what to do.
It is not a book about becoming a better manager. It is about staying connected to yourself while carrying the weight of leadership.
Start with where you are.
Considering leadership, trying to survive it, carrying its emotional weight, or wondering whether you still want the role — each resource was created for a different point in the journey.
Should I Really Become A Principal?
For educators considering school leadership.
A private guide for educators wondering whether school leadership is truly the right next step.
Managing Schools for the Terrified
For school leaders trying to survive the everyday reality of the job.
Practical guidance for the difficult people, daily pressure, and situations nobody fully prepares you for.
The Lonely Office
For the emotional side of school leadership.
For school leaders quietly questioning whether to stay, step away, or imagine a different future.
The Principal’s Private Pages
For the thoughts you need somewhere private to put down.
A guided journal for the thoughts, frustrations, and emotions that are hard to say out loud.
Should I Still Be A Principal?
For school leaders who are no longer sure they want the job.
A private guide for thinking clearly about burnout, staying, stepping away, and what life beyond the role might look like.
Not sure where to Begin?
Start with the question that feels closest to where you are right now.
Why these resources are different?
Not just for strategy, policies, or performance — but for the quieter weight school leaders carry every day.
The Good Principal is for the decisions you replay, the pressure you carry, and the private emotional cost of being the person everyone depends on. It speaks to the part of leadership that follows you home and rarely gets said out loud.
Not theory-heavy
Practical, human, and grounded in the realities school leaders actually face.
For the parts nobody teaches
Pressure, doubt, difficult conversations, loneliness, and the emotional weight of the role.
Created for real moments
Resources you can return to when the office is quiet and you need clarity, perspective, or somewhere to put things down.
Need help choosing a resource?
Start with the question closest to where you are right now.
There is no single way to carry school leadership well.
Find the resource that meets you where you are.