Articles by Joel Wagner
Sharpen The Saw
In his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey refers to Habit #7 as “Sharpen The Saw.” As teachers, the summer vacation […]
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 this article, we’re going to look […]
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. Here is a list of […]
8 Methods For Recruiting People Into Your Program
As a band director dealing with beginning band, a substantial part of my energy each year is spent on recruiting 5th graders to be in […]
4 Tip’s For Being Respected
An Alarming Trend One of the things that I have come to realize is that, by and large, educators have a poor grasp of grammar […]
Do You Run The Risk of Becoming Successful?
The time from spring break to the end of the school year often seems like a battle between students and teachers to see who is […]
How Not To Waste Spring Break (or Summer Vacation, or Christmas Break, or Saturday, or Tonight!)
“I’m bored” No success will come from squandering time. Time is too precious to waste. The summer months and holiday weekend that we are afforded […]
6 Motivation Techniques
Embed from Getty Images “What are you doing to motivate them?” I was talking with a friend this afternoon about her class. She is a […]
A Customer Service Oriented Classroom Experience
In The Beginning When I was in college, I had an assignment for one of my classes. The assignment was to write up my own […]
Classroom Management: The Key To Your Success
Above all else that you do in education, classroom management skills will pay greater dividends. I cannot tell you how much more teaching I actually […]
5 Keys To Educating People
A Matter of Priorities During my first two years of teaching, I discovered that I had a whole lot of information, but the students just […]