You have just been appointed as the principal of the school. Your enthusiasm bubbles over until you are faced with your first crisis. Then you stop and pause and realize that no one ever told you how to handle these things. This book will help you navigate your journey. It will help you deal with the realities of your new life, that of a school principal. You quickly learn that this is not what you signed up for. You wanted to be an instructional leader and yet you find that you spend no time on that part of your job. You are doing everything but what you had hoped for. In your sleepless nights you ask yourself over and over again, "why didn't anyone tell me about this?" This book will help you answer this question. The author skillfully uses a set of commandments to help explain the realities of being a principal. It will be your survival guide. The commandments include topics such as: ¿ Thou shalt always tell the truth, yet people do not want to hear the truth.