10 Years of Teaching: How Do I Keep My Students Interested?
Five years ago, I wrote a series of seven articles called “Questions That Will Save Your Career” that still remain among the most visited articles […]
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Why I Removed Comments From My Blog
This evening, I decided to do something I’ve been toying around with since the summer. I finally deleted comments from my blog entirely. Where it […]
The Adaptive Unconscious: You Never Get A Second Chance To Make A First Impression
Yesterday, I picked up a copy of Malcolm Gladwell‘s book Blink (purchase on Amazon). Dave Ramsey has been recommending his latest bookOutliers (purchase on Amazon) […]
20 Ways I Really Use My iPhone To Teach Band Class
On the day that the iPhone 3G was released, I rushed out to the local AT&T Store to pick up my very own. I was […]
20 Classic SYWTT Articles And Series
If this is your first time visiting this site, or even if you’ve been reading for a while, there are undoubtedly some articles that you’ve […]
Flashback Friday
I’ve been thinking lately about trying to have each day be a sort of theme day. I don’t intend on posting every day (that’s not […]
10 WordPress 2.7 Hacks That Make My Blog Totally Rock Out
This post has absolutely nothing to do with teaching or education. It’s totally about blogging. More specifically, WordPress. If you have not yet discovered the […]
Last Minute UIL Concert & Sight Reading Preparations: 10 Things I Am Doing To Try To Get Sweepstakes
This Thursday, I will be taking my Middle School band to our UIL Concert & Sight Reading contest. For those who don’t understand how the […]
Personal Questions
Calebteaches got me thinking about this today. How old are you? Do you have a girlfriend? Do you have a MySpace? I love working with […]
The Busiest Articles of 2008
On Wednesday, we looked back at some of The Loneliest Articles of 2008, today, well go to the other extreme and look at the busiest […]
Life Lesson 1: Experience Is The Best Teacher
This article is the first in a series of “life lessons” exploring some of the things that I have learned over the years. In this […]
Freedom And 50 Other Things That Make Me Happy
Freedom from oppression Doing what I love and making money for it Freedom of faith The Bible Hymns My family My friends My dogs My […]
Whitespace
Have you noticed that People really don’t like As I prepare my bands for the UIL Concert & Sight Reading […]
Hyper-Focus Fosters Higher Quality Output
Get your commenting skills ready, there’s lots of material to be discussed here. I will be offline for most of this coming week and would […]
Loving My Job; Hating My Work
Even if you ignore the majority of this article, check out the last sentence. I am absolutely loving school since coming back from Christmas Break. […]