I realized something this week. As I start my sixth year of teaching, I finally have an amazing level of ...

Today is the first day of school in Texas. Even though the school year starts later, the football season doesn't ...

It's nearing the end of August. Hopefully, you are not looking for a new job this early in the school ...

Last week, Michelle wrote that she learned that one of her colleagues recently passed away. She writes a popular blog ...

Happy Monday morning. I begin staff development this week. School begins in Texas next Monday. This spring, I began to ...

Another week begins. Now that Summer Band is in full swing, I am reminded how difficult and full my schedule ...

EDIT: I replaced the original image I had on here. This one was taken from Transitions Abroad's website. It's a ...

The new school year is two weeks and two days away. This time last year, our week of inservices was ...

On July 4th, author Timothy Ferriss wrote a blog entry about changing the world. In response to his request for ...

Today is my sister's birthday. Happy birthday Joel's sister. :) My birthday is also this Wednesday. It's not an education ...

We’ve all been there. The beginning of the first year of teaching can be daunting, to say the least. It ...

I took out nearly every advertisement from the site. The exception are links to books on Amazon, and a couple ...

In the Band Director world, the fourth year in a school district is a special year. When I got my ...

This is my second installment of the weekend wrapup. I wanted to focus on some great articles I saw this ...

I went to the doctor today. It was the first time I've been in over a year and a half ...

Last summer, I read The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The book radically impacted me and helped me to ...

I have spent much of last week and this week with one of the high school band directors thoroughly analyzing ...

I live in a relatively small town that is more than 20 minutes from the next closest smaller town, and ...

As the school year looms closer and closer, I am going to establish a blogging routine. The plan is to ...

So I wrote Shut Up And Teach! yesterday and have gotten mixed reactions from it. Some have argued that my ...

I get so tired of hearing teachers complaining about No Child Left Behind. I get so tired of hearing teachers ...

It's the last half of July, you're looking for a job, you have no interviews lined up, and school starts ...

I recently read an article entitled Is Positive Possible? by Samantha on TeacherLingo.com. In the article, she writes in part: ...

Polishing The Resume So you have just graduated from college and ready to enter the teaching field. Or maybe you ...