Hopefully you are fired up for this week.  I am!  We are fortunate to have the best students in Garland ISD and we are all charged to provide them with the best educational environment possible.  Game on Rangers! Two meetings took place this week in order to help us...

Welcome back to your best week yet.  This will be a busy week for all of us.  Grades will be due at the end of this week.  Most of our students have shown mastery and have done exactly what has been asked of them.  Unfortunately, some of them may have missed the...

The fifth week of school starts now.  Hopefully all of your bodies have gotten used to the new school year.  It’s so important to try and use some of your weekend to get some rest.  We are officially in full swing. I was talking to a student that is new to Naaman from...

Two weeks down, and many more to go.  It was sort of refreshing to get an extra day off to recharge and be rested in order to give our students our best.  Hopefully all of you enjoyed the GISD Convocation.  It was a great program.  I loved your spirit and enthusiasm. ...

Welcome back!  Is that you?  Glad you are back for week two. Hopefully you got some good rest.  Once again thank you for a great first week.  Great things do not happen without us working together. The time is now to start your march toward reaching your goals.  Every...

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...

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...

I hope all of you had a great weekend.  It always seems that they go so fast.  Thank you to all of you that wished me a Happy Birthday.  I am thankful to know each of you and I am always grateful for the love that you show.  Naaman is such a caring loving learning...

So the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl.  I’m certainly not an Eagles fan but it is certainly good for that city to win their first actual Super Bowl.  I’m always thankful for events like the Super Bowl that bring folks together that allow us to move past...

I saw a tweet last night that made me think of something that should be important to us all.  In summary it pretty much asked what do you want to be known for…or what do you want your reputation to be as an educator.  Do you want to be known as the person that did all...

In order to be the best you have to think like the best.  I talked to you at the beginning of the semester about the Alabama Crimson Tide and how they have a reputation of being the best team in college football.  I don’t like them, but it is what it is.  They are the...