The finish line is almost near. We have been involved in two straight weeks of testing and it’s finally complete. Thank you to everyone who worked to make it go extremely smooth. We will still have some makeup days here and there as well. It is important to...
A teacher’s heart! I was watching a terrible video on Facebook the other day where a student crossed the line with a teacher in an aggressive manner. After I watched the video I decided to read the comments under the video. Most of the individuals that commented...
It’s Teacher Appreciation at The Forest! It’s often hard to put in words the incredible work that you do for your students. Being a teacher is challenging. It’s a challenge that’s becoming more and more challenging each year. I never thought a time would come when...
Can you believe it’s already May? The school year has gone by so fast! We still have a little bit longer to go. This is that final part of the race where you are super tired, out of breath, and your brain is saying stop, just give it up. This is where the heart...
Last week flew right on by. It seemed like there was something exciting taking place each day and night. This week will be equally as busy. As I often mention we cannot allow all of the various activities that are taking place cause us to lose our focus. One of the...
It’s a new week at The Forest! Are you ready? I hope so! Here we go! I want to thank you for how all of you stepped in as we allowed students to remember students who lost their lives in tragic school shootings. The students responded well and appropriately. Many...
Thank you for your patience and flexibility last week with STAAR testing. We’ll have another round in May and have identified things that we need to do to improve. Because of each of you both days were virtually without incident. I mentioned to you at the faculty...
Welcome back folks! This will be a fast and furious week for all of us. There are tons of activities going on as well as many of our students will be taking the STAAR test. As you all know we’ll be taking the English I EOC on Tuesday and the English II EOC...
Welcome back to the Forest! Hopefully all of you had a great Easter weekend with family and friends. It certainly was great to be back in the big city of Hearne with my family. I have been writing to you about remaining focused on what's important. Please continue...
It’s Monday again! Another Monday to reset and make a tremendous impact in the life of your students. It’s Spring time at a large high school so that means there are tons of things going on each day and night. What I love to see is the Championship spirit I am...
Hopefully each of you got some time to rest and relax over spring break. I certainly had the opportunity to get a small break. We are all back and it’s time to get to work. Spend a few minutes reconnecting with your students and go ahead and jump back into the...
Hopefully each of you got a good amount of a break from your race (thinking back to what I wrote about Friday) this weekend. We have to all push a little further until Spring Break. During Spring Break hopefully you’ll get some time to rest and do something fun....