Conflict Resolution and Dealing With Angry Parents

Here’s how effective principals can redirect angry energy from parents, employees, and taxpayers toward productive solutions.

Topics: Assistant Principals, Early Career Principals

Open your ears, close your mouth, and listen. People who feel invested in their schools as parents, employees, and taxpayers need to have their say, according to veteran principals. Rising stress from financial worries, social media, parenting challenges, and childhood anxiety make principals a natural target. The effective principal can redirect that angry energy toward productive solutions.

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