The Elephant Planner for Principals

You are the one who signs, decides, and answers for it. The instructional work you know matters most is the first thing the calendar buries under everything only you can approve. Your day fills with what other people need, and the building slowly loses your attention.

The Elephant Planner for Principals is a 248-page, print-ready system organized around the six domains of a principal's work: instruction, people, culture, operations, family and community, and personal leadership. Every page earns its place by helping you answer one of four questions. What needs my attention today? Who owns this work? What patterns am I seeing? What is my next action?

It is built for a principal, not a manager of tasks. The premise of the whole edition is the balcony view: seeing the whole school and deciding who carries each piece, rather than carrying all of it yourself. So the planner runs on four ways to hold any responsibility. Lead the work only you can do, delegate and monitor what someone else can own, collaborate where the thinking has to be shared, and verify what you have handed off, because delegated work that no one confirms is how a school discovers in April that something stopped in November.

Burnout in this work is a systems problem, not a personal failing. This planner will not make the job smaller. What it will do is take the whole thing out of your head and put it on the page, so you can leave the building on time without carrying every open decision home with you.

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. This planner cuts the year into bites you can actually digest.

What's inside

• 43 planning tools across six domains, each built to reprint as often as you need
• A full year of monthly and weekly calendar spreads, August to July
• A weekly leader schedule to protect your time before the day claims it
• A full delegation set: Leadership Team Roster, Decision Rights, Coaching Assignment Map, and Leadership Team One-on-One
• Low-inference observation pages and walkthrough trend tracking that keep your evidence clean
• Principal-specific tools for staffing, budget, decisions, difficult conversations, and school improvement plan alignment
• Set-up pages for self-evaluation, goals, and progress monitoring across all six domains
• Reflection questions written for a principal, with a ruled continuation on every reverse

The details

• 248 pages, print-ready PDF
• US Letter, 8.5 by 11 inches, portrait, black and white throughout
• School year 2026 to 2027
• Single-user license, print any page as many times as you need
• Three downloads included