Don’t Waste Spring Break

You can feel it right now on campuses. STAAR is around the corner. Teachers are tired. Principals are carrying a lot. Everyone is pushing, but there’s a low hum of stress in the background.

Spring break is one week away.

For most leaders, that week becomes one of two things. Either you completely shut down because you’re exhausted, or you sit there half-relaxing and half-thinking about everything waiting for you when you get back.

What if it became something else?

When I was a principal, the biggest improvements I ever made didn’t happen in the middle of chaos. They happened when I finally had space to think clearly. Not react. Think.

That’s why I wrote The Campus Comeback workbook. It’s not something you read cover to cover. It’s something you sit with. It asks the questions most leaders don’t have time to ask during the school day. Where are our systems weak? Where are we reacting instead of leading? Who is ready for more? Who is struggling quietly? What is next year going to demand that we’re not preparing for yet?

Spring break is the perfect time to step back and reflect without pressure. Not to redo everything. Just to get clear.

If you’re in district leadership, this is also the season to be strategic with your budget. You don’t build leadership strength in August. You build it in the spring. New principals, assistant principals, coaches, future leaders — building the bench matters. If you want stronger campuses next year, you have to strengthen the people now.

The workbook gives leaders structure. And structure lowers stress.