For example, the first

hour of my day, I spend it walking through the building, checking in with every member of our faculty and staff.

I do individual check-ins.

I ask every teacher, how are you doing today? Is there anything I can help you with? So everyone on my team knows during the first hour of the day, I'm not taking meetings.

There's not going to be other things going on.

I'm not going to be sitting behind desks doing paperwork at that time.

I'm going to be up.

You're supporting the teachers to then go and support the students.

And they're asking me, people have been saying, but how does he get his work done? Do you get your principal work done or roll around? You talk to students, connect with teachers all day, and then you go home and you do a day's worth of work at the computer.

That's a really good question.

I think it kind of goes back to, I think, what is like the true responsibility of the principal.

And I believe the number one responsibility, the most important thing I can do in a building is supporting teachers and students.

A lot of people ask me, when do you do the real work? And my response to that is the real work is actually supporting teachers and students being attuned to their needs and helping them troubleshoot and problem solve as things come up.

So I don't look at it as something separate.

I think the most impactful thing work that I can do is making sure that people have what they need, that people feel like they have the support that's in place.

You're supporting the teachers to then go and support the students.