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There come times in life when we need to find something to do. There come times in life when we need a break. There come times in life when we need to cut back some things so we can find that perfect place. This is one of those times for me. With the
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**This is a guest post contributed by Heather Johnson, who is an industry critic on the subject of university reviews . She invites your feedback at heatherjohnson2323@gmail.com . For those of you who are not on summer school duty this year, you are probably
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Have you signed up to join the Blog Revolution Project ? Matthew tagged me . Blame it all on him! With round 3 of TAKS testing coming up next week, we all could use a little break. The rules: The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player
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Just in time for March Madness Watch this video Read this article Being a Middle-Aged Nerd is No Excuse for Stupid What did you just learn? How can you relate it to classroom management? Also, I want to take this opportunity to draw your attention to
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I have found that People really don’t like As I prepare my bands for the UIL Concert & Sight Reading contest that is now less than a month away, I have noticed that they seem to have a big problem with rests. For the uninitiated, rests in music
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As we begin the month of March, I want to take a look back a year ago and see where my thoughts and focus were oriented. For me, this is productive as it helps me to see the progress, or more accurately the changes, that have happened over the last year.
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On February 11th, 2007 I wrote the first blog post that is included in the archives of So You Want To Teach? I didn ‘t actually set up the blog on this domain until June, but I thought that since the blog was now over a year old (at least as far
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Idea stolen from Chris Thomas Have you ever: Changed a personal habit? What was it and how did you accomplish it? Lost more than 30 pounds? How did you do it and how did it make you feel? Paid off over $10,000 in debt? What steps did you take and how
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This is perhaps the most influential article I’ve posted on here. At least as far as my own personal perspective goes. Read on… I realized some things today There never will be enough time to do everything I want to do. There never will be
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So on Tuesday, I wrote about an incident I had where I was awfully sarcastic with a student and it upset him . I received some great comments. The conversation is continuing over there. If you haven’t chimed in, now would be a great time to do so.
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Today was a pretty good day in parts. In fact, most of my classes went really well. Except for my percussion class. It has been bad since the middle of December. This is slightly abnormal for me, but the following post is a narrative with a question and
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My life has changed quite a bit since December 1st. Today, I want to look back on some of the things that have happened in the life of this blog, as well as some things that have happened in the life of Joel. Blogging changes The number of readers continues
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I will begin setting up and writing in a Music Education blog soon. The idea was to include Music Education content on this blog, but I think that might alienate a handful of the readers and that is the last thing I want to do. So when it gets up and
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