Imagine you’ve just become principal of a middle school with a highly-diverse population where hate speech, discipline referrals, on-campus vaping, and physical conflicts are major issues. Then as the school year begins, add a major disaster that displaces hundreds of your students! How can a principal deal with overwhelming challenges like these?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the type of situation that Katherine Holden faced as a first-year principal in Oregon. In this article, she discusses what it’s like to dive head-first into the lead administrative role during challenging times, and she shares her tips for overcoming adversity<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imagine you’ve just become principal of a middle school with a highly-diverse population where hate speech, discipline referrals, on-campus vaping, and physical conflicts are major issues. Then as the school year begins, add a major disaster that displaces hundreds of your students! How can a principal deal with overwhelming challenges like these? This is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[517,516,515,514,253,348],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adversity","tag-disasters","tag-goals","tag-katherine-holden","tag-relationships","tag-school-climate","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}