The soundtrack for A River Runs Through It is cinematic perfection, specifically the main title. When the fiddle begins to hum the familiar music, I […]
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The Great Purge: A Supplemental(s) Story
Effective teachers have a broad bank of instructional materials to supplement lesson design and delivery. Some of that material is purchased by teachers, and some […]
The Arts Embedded: How to Incorporate Visual Arts and Music into Your Classroom
Happy Friday!!! Our goal as teachers is to give all parts of the brain a good workout. I used to kind of look down on […]
Pacing Guides are #@!%
Let them eat cake. It is a phrase associated with telling poor, starving French souls to go eat something even more expensive than bread(which they […]
Relevancy in the Age of Information: Montessori Instructional Design vs Data Driven Instructional Design
Our school system’s convocation years ago featured a man who noted that within just a few short years our public schools would be rendered antiquated […]
The Switch to All Digital was Poorly Planned
Sometimes, I just have to get things out of my system. The switch to digital a decade ago is one of those things. I mean […]
Raising Courageous Young Men
How do we develop young men who possess the courage to stand up for what is right? Whew. That is not an easy answer. In […]
What they really need to hear….
I can promise you that as educators that there are gonna be some days that break your heart. You are going to be left searching […]
Big Orange Fridays and Tennessee Football
As a kid, I remember listening to John Ward on the radio. His commentary brought the game alive. I grew up hanging on every word. […]
Honey Bun Snacks and Student Discipline
I could do an entire blog on student discipline. I have worked in schools where student discipline was rarely a problem. I worked in a […]