Resources for Campus Leaders
Welcome to our resources page, specifically designed for campus principals.
Here, you'll find a selection of tools, insights, and expert-created content aimed at supporting your leadership journey and enhancing school performance.
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The Principal’s Spring Hiring Playbook
Everything you need to hire with confidence — for less than the cost of lunch. For just $19.99, you’ll get:
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✔ Structured Interview & Scoring Templates (editable)
✔ Role-Specific Question Sets for 14 PK–12 Positions
✔ 3–2–1 Rating System to Reduce Bias & Protect Legally
✔ “What to Listen For” Guidance
✔ Reference Check Scripts & Legal Guardrails
✔ Hiring Committee Training Slide Deck
✔ Decision-Making Framework for Final Selections
This isn’t just a list of questions.
It’s a complete hiring system designed to help you:
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Avoid costly hiring mistakes
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Identify growth-minded educators
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Strengthen Tier 1 instruction
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Build a positive campus culture
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Make defensible, confident decisions
One strong hire can elevate your school for years.
This guide helps you make that hire!
Elementary Master Scheduling Tools
Because elementary principals don’t get scheduling software — they get spreadsheets.
In most districts, secondary schools use specialized software to build their master schedules. Elementary principals? They usually build theirs by hand.
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We created the Elementary Master Scheduling Checklist and the Staff Feedback Survey Template to give elementary principals a clear, structured path from February through May. These tools help you:
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Identify non-negotiables (conference, services, lunch, etc.)
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Align your schedule to student achievement priorities
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Build collaboration time intentionally
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Avoid service conflicts and compliance surprises
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Gather meaningful staff input without losing control of the process
If you’re building your elementary master schedule manually, these tools will help you move from overwhelm to clarity.
Resource Links:
Master Schedule Building Checklist
Staff Feedback Survey (editable to fit your needs)​
Chronic Absenteeism Toolkit
Three ready-to-us tools to help you address chronic absenteeism in your school.
Just click the icons to access the tools. The agenda and form require you to make your own copy so you can edit it to meet your campus needs.
Tiered Intervention Framework for Chronic Absenteeism
This easy-to-use framework helps school leaders implement a clear, tiered system of prevention and intervention strategies to reduce chronic absenteeism.
Attendance Success
Meeting Agenda
A ready-to-use agenda designed to guide Tier 2 or Tier 3 meetings (depending on the stage in which you intervene with the family for attendance concerns). It ensures your team focuses on data, identifies root causes, gives voice to students and families, and ends with a clear action plan.
Attendance Success Plan Google Form
This digital form allows you to document each student’s attendance history, barriers, strengths, interventions, and personalized attendance goals. It's perfect for capturing information live during the meeting and tracking plans over time.
Other Free Resources from PLS
Back to School To-Do Lists
New Principal Checklist:
Your First 90 Days
New Teacher Toolkit
Campus Improvement Planning Checklist
Principal's Guide to the
First 90 Days (Full Guide)
Guide to Preparing for
Crucial Conversations
