Do you hear that??? Podcasts and more podcasts!!! I am a huge fan of podcasts and consume a large number of them every week. They are perfect for exercising, doing chores, commuting, etc. In fact, this probably falls into the category of TMI but…I even listen to them in the shower sometimes if I’m really enjoying

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Listen… Do you hear that?

On September 28, 2016, school counselor Molly Hudgens was in her office at Sycamore Middle School when a fourteen-year-old armed with a semiautomatic handgun and an additional magazine of ammunition came to her in the counseling department. His plan…kill people on campus. What happened next is truly a miracle. What happened next led to Molly becoming a Congressional

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The School Shooting That NEVER Happened

In Teachers Deserve It by Rae Hughart and Adam Welcome, I loved the section about giving “Today’s Best.” Rae was nice enough to also share it in a recent DBC Inc. Sunday Seven post, and it hit me so strongly that I have mentioned it in two of my own podcast interviews since then! So, last week,

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Today’s Best

Hey…real talk. You may be absolutely overwhelmed and at a loss for how you are going to manage the many demands and uncertainties of this school year. Truth be told, nobody has this all figured out. Everybody is a first year teacher this year. Everybody is a first year school leader. Nobody took a class

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Overwhelmed? This is for you.