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Where Have All The Good Teachers Gone?

There is a dearth of good teachers throughout the world. And I'm not just talking about those of us who ...

Clarity Leads To Organization

In my last post Organization Leads To Sanity, I wrote about how I personally get organized at work. In this ...

Organization Leads To Sanity

After a conversation with another teacher last night, I started looking through the archives. I realized that I have written ...

Questions That Will Save Your Career

This article features links to other articles in a series called "Questions That Will Save Your Career." These are all considerations that I have ...
How Do I Keep My Sanity?

How Do I Keep My Sanity?

This article is part 7 of the series Questions That Will Save Your Career. Please read the other articles in ...

How Do I Keep My School Administration Happy? (Or At Least How Do I Keep Them At Bay)

This article is part 6 of the series Questions That Will Save Your Career. Please read the other articles in ...
How Do I Keep My Students Away From Me? (4 Tips To Establish Boundaries)

How Do I Keep My Students Away From Me? (4 Tips To Establish Boundaries)

This article is part 5 of the series Questions That Will Save Your Career. Please read the other articles in the ...
How Do I Keep My Students Learning?

How Do I Keep My Students Learning?

This article is part 4 of the series Questions That Will Save Your Career. Please read the other articles in ...

How Do I Keep My Students Interested?

This article is part 3 of the series Questions That Will Save Your Career. Please read the other articles in ...

How Do I Keep My Students Engaged?

This article is part 2 of the series Questions That Will Save Your Career. Please read the other articles in ...

How Do I Keep My Students Quiet?

This article is part 1 of the series Questions That Will Save Your Career. Before you can focus on engaging your ...

Efficient vs. Effective

This week, I began reading The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss. It's an outstanding book. One of the points that ...

Finding Excellent Educators To Emulate

As my fifth year of teaching came to a close, I began thinking back on my teaching career. When I ...

06-07: What To Change Next Year

As we begin the summer vacation, I am looking back on what went really well this year, what didn’t work ...

06-07: What Didn’t Work Well

As we begin the summer vacation, I am looking back on what went really well this year, what didn’t work ...

06-07: What Worked Well

As we begin the summer vacation, I am looking back on what went really well this year, what didn't work ...

06-07: A Year In Review

As the school year comes to a close, and before the summer gets into full swing, I am reviewing the ...

The Vitality of Collaboration

Most of the band staff went to lunch today. We spent about an hour and a half at a pizza ...

Reading

I moved to my new office today and brought a few books. The other band director I'll be working with ...

Finishing Strong

A band director I used to work with said this. The concept is that success comes from finishing something well ...

The Dip

It came in the mail on Friday. I read it on Saturday. This was my first opportunity to read a ...

Sharpen The Saw

In his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey refers to Habit #7 as "Sharpen The Saw." ...

Be The Best Teacher In The World

Dave Ramsey recently wrote an article entitled High-Performance Achievement and it's about his training to run of a marathon. In ...

4 Ways To Effectively Deal With Important People

If work just isn't seeming to work out for you, maybe you are focusing your attention in the wrong place ...
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