Heads of School in small schools wear so many hats. Discussion ensued about how to make the most of the relationships you have and how to balance the many responsibilities both in school and in your own lives.
Work/Life Balance
- Buy a treadmill for the faculty lounge and encourage its use
- As a head of school do walk and talk meetings
- Take a ½ day off on a regular basis
- Leave school to go to minyan
- Learn to say no and embrace it and have everyone understand why
Communication/Development
- Use inexpensive software to help with marketing; such as CANVA
- Make shutterfly books for donors highlighting the areas of the school they hold dear
- Use your admin team to help write thank you notes; keep a running list of all of your interactions each week and then thank each of those people
- If you write them all have lists of address labels ready for your use
- Can we all answer the question “What is your Public Purpose?”
Supervision of Faculty/Student Care
- Give all staff a wellness day sometime from Jan.-Pesach break. It is an extra personal day.
- Friday coffee cart.
- A day with no office hours so you can be only in the classrooms.
- Kol HaKavod cards for students.
- An email address for teachers to share student concerns.
- Make time for your staff; twenty minutes once a month with each one.
