The Elephant Planner for Assistant Principals by Tended Collective

You are the first call and the last one to leave. You are measured on outcomes across the whole building and hold only a fraction of the levers that move them. The job description is endless by design, and no amount of extra hours will close it. This planner was built for that job.

The Elephant Planner for Assistant Principals is organized around the domains you are actually evaluated on: instruction, people, staff culture, student culture, operations, family and community, and personal leadership. Every page earns its place by helping you answer the questions the work keeps asking. What needs my attention today? Who needs my support? What is the pattern here? What is my next move?

It is built to give the work edges. There is a set-up section you complete once in August and lean on for ten months, dated monthly and weekly spreads for the year as it actually unfolds, and a library of reprintable tools for the parts of the job that repeat: observations and coaching, MTSS and data, staff and student culture, families, operations, and the quiet work of managing up and protecting your own capacity.

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 situation 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

• 38 planning tools across the 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
• Observation and coaching tools, from classroom observations to walkthrough planning to an observation and support calendar
• MTSS and Tier 3 planning that keeps your intervention caseload in one view
• Set-up pages for self-evaluation, goals, and progress monitoring across every domain
• Reflection questions written for a leader, with a ruled continuation on every reverse

The details

• 193 unique pages, 231 pages in the file, 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 or use with your favorite digital planning system.