How Did I End Up Responsible for All This? (PDF)

How Did I End Up Responsible for All This? (PDF)

School leadership looks very different once you're actually doing it.
This book isn’t a handbook or a miracle strategy guide. It’s a collection of real moments from behaviour and safeguarding leadership — the conversations you replay on the drive home, the situations you never trained for, and the responsibilities that somehow end up on your desk.

Inside, you’ll find:

• behaviour incidents that weren’t in the brochure
• staff dynamics that could drain a battery
• safeguarding decisions that land at the worst possible moment
• daft situations you only believe because you were there
• and the quieter moments that stick with you for no good reason

Some stories are light. Some aren’t. All of them are real.

If you’ve ever stood in a corridor and thought:
“How did I become the person dealing with this?”
— then this will feel familiar.

It won’t tell you how to be the perfect leader.
It will reassure you that you’re not the only one figuring it out while the job keeps moving.

Download the PDF. Read it with a brew.
And know you’re not the only one who’s wondered how they ended up responsible for all this.

If you want a shorter, tighter Gumroad version, here’s a punchier alternative:

A book about school leadership without the corporate language, the hero narrative, or the magic formulas.
Real stories from behaviour and safeguarding leadership — the ones that actually happen, not the ones on posters.

If you’ve ever wondered how you ended up responsible for everything from crisis to chaos to “Why is there a sheep in the playground?” — you’ll recognise this.