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The Frazzled Principal's Wellness Plan
Reclaiming Time, Managing Stress, and Creating a Healthy Lifestyle
- J. Allen Queen - University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
- Patsy S. Queen - Gaston College, Dallas, NC
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Principalship
Principalship
December 2004 | 144 pages | Corwin
"Gives all principals the tools to be as productive as your talents will allow you to be. . . You should be able to maintain a healthier lifestyle, stay out of your doctor's office, and be your most effective self."
Donald Schumacher, M.D.
Center for Nutrition and Preventive Medicine, Charlotte, NC
"I recommend The Frazzled Principal's Wellness Plan to any principal, school leader, or district leader who wants to improve performance by learning to balance priorities, manage time and stress, gain vital skills, and create a healthy lifestyle."
Jim R. Watson, Superintendent
Lincoln County Public Schools, NC
Manage your stress and priorities so you can be the productive, creative principal you were meant to be!
This wellness guide for today's busy principals, school leaders, supervisors, and administrators has been custom crafted by the authors of The Frazzled Teacher's Wellness Plan to address the stresses of managing workplace environments, juggling time and competing priorities, learning to delegate, balancing personal and professional agendas, and creating win-win situations.
Special features of this stress reducer and life enhancer include:
Donald Schumacher, M.D.
Center for Nutrition and Preventive Medicine, Charlotte, NC
"I recommend The Frazzled Principal's Wellness Plan to any principal, school leader, or district leader who wants to improve performance by learning to balance priorities, manage time and stress, gain vital skills, and create a healthy lifestyle."
Jim R. Watson, Superintendent
Lincoln County Public Schools, NC
Manage your stress and priorities so you can be the productive, creative principal you were meant to be!
This wellness guide for today's busy principals, school leaders, supervisors, and administrators has been custom crafted by the authors of The Frazzled Teacher's Wellness Plan to address the stresses of managing workplace environments, juggling time and competing priorities, learning to delegate, balancing personal and professional agendas, and creating win-win situations.
Special features of this stress reducer and life enhancer include:
- Checklists for identifying and managing personal and professional stressors
- Illustrated guides to desktop yoga and other physical activities
- Strategies for immediate and long-term stress reduction
- Case examples, literature reviews, references, cartoons, sidebars, and more
List of Checklists and Planners
Donald Schumacher
Physician's Foreword
Jim R. Watson
Educator's Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Educational Leadership in a Culture of Stress
2. Restructuring Personal and Leadership Priorities for a Healthy Lifestyle
3. Mastering the Science of Stress Management for Better Health
4. Using Physical Activity as a Professional and Personal Coping Strategy
5. Desktop Yoga
6. Immediate Stress Reducers
7. Arresting Time Bandits at Home and at School
8. Using Nutrition to Support a Healthy Lifestyle
9. What the Literature Says About Stress and School Leadership
References
Index
"Gives all principals the tools to be as productive as your talents will allow you to be. . . You should be able to maintain a healthier lifestyle, stay out of your doctor’s office, and be your most effective self."
Center for Nutrition and Preventive Medicine, Charlotte, NC
"I recommend The Frazzled Principal’s Wellness Plan to any principal, school leader, or district leader who wants to improve performance by learning to balance priorities, manage time and stress, gain vital skills, and create a healthy lifestyle."
Lincoln County Public Schools, NC
"Geared towards the discerning principal educator, this paperback kept my interest and I am confident it will keep yours. This volume will make a great gift for any principal and the many principal ‘wannabees’….I strongly urge you to purchase this book for anyone currently in, or seriously thinking about, assuming the multifaceted role of a school principal."