I think sometimes (for me, more often than not!) the best way to get students to where we want them to be is to envision them there.  And then use what is termed, The Backwards...

Here is a bit of food for thought:  President Dwight D. Eisenhower defined leadership as “the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do...

As we start this new school year, it may serve us all well to remember that sometimes it is less about our students believing they can do what’s ahead, than it is their believing...

Amazing, isn’t it? Have you ever really thought about what you do every day? What you teach, the lives you change, the destinies you help shape, all from a bunch of little black...

The true test of our teaching – the real measure of our time with our students – can be summed up in the words of Ann Landers when she said, "It is not what you do for your...

Ralph Waldo Emerson so poignantly stated that, "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." Peter Loel Boonshaft, Director of Education KHS...

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." Let’s vow not to be interrupted, or to be the one interrupting! It is as easy to say, as it is...

Silent rehearsals may be one of the most remarkably effective rehearsal tools I know. Nothing I know works better to focus an ensemble than posting the order of what will be...

In the words of Maya Angelou, "I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." And...