How I Fell In Love With Lesson Planning Music Education by Joel Wagner - June 20, 2016June 20, 20160 "I got your lesson plans right here, buddy!" You know the drill, spend hours creating a lesson plan weeks ahead of the class that you don't even stick to because the students fell behind last week  and now you're playing catch up trying to make magic happen. I know. Or an administrator drops by expecting to see your lesson plan binder at the front of the classroom or the state-mandated objectives listen on the board, or whatever new wild scheme the wind has blown in this year. Or maybe I'm the only one who has spent one industrious teacher work day in April writing lesson plans for the entire year because I didn't do them. Or simply turned in an empty lesson plan binder at the end of another school year.