Inventory the work
List recurring meetings, decisions, routines, interruptions, and responsibilities.
CHAPTER 1 - PROTOCOL 5
Energy Mapping
TIME45-60 minutes
OWNERPrincipal or leadership team
ARTIFACTEnergy-impact map + calendar reallocation
- You map recurring tasks by energy effect and leadership impact.
- You identify work to protect, redesign, delegate, or stop.
- You test the equity and system consequences of reallocation.
- You make one concrete calendar change.
Map energy and impact
Place each item by energy return or drain and by low or high impact.
Decide what changes
Protect high-impact work; redesign, share, batch, or stop low-return work.
Reallocate the calendar
Make one visible scheduling or ownership change and set a review date.
WORKING ORGANIZER
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REFLECTION PROMPTS
- Which high-impact work is consistently crowded out?
- Which drain is a design problem rather than a personal flaw?
- What does the current calendar communicate about priorities?
EQUITY GUARDRAILS
- Delegation must include authority, clarity, capacity, and support.
- Do not offload undesirable work onto staff with less power.
- Preserve required care, accessibility, and student-centered responsibilities.