has been my life for the last 37 years.  I started kindergarten in 1974 in Happy, Texas.  After graduation from high school, I received an athletic scholarship to Tarleton State University for football.  I got home sick and changed school and sports, moving to at that time West Texas State University to play baseball.  I started with an Ag Ed major because I knew that I had a gift for teaching but moved to History with the inspiration of a great professor, Dr Brasington.  Upon graduation with a Bachelor in History from now West Texas A&M University, I set my goals on coaching.  I was a certified social studies composite. My first teaching/ coaching position was at Three Way ISD just south of Muleshoe, Texas.  In my first two years, I learned three times more than what I was teaching to my players and students.  I had six preps; American History 8th and 11th, Texas History 7th, Economics / Government 12th, World History 10th, and Geography 9th. I was the head football, track, and cross-country, and assistant basketball and volleyball coach.  In the spring of 1994, my mother was diagnosed with cancer.  I found a position where I could be closer to her and have fewer responsibilies, which I was blessed to find at Tulia ISD.  I taught for nine years at the middle school.  I gained much from my stay at Tulia, one the most important was the love of technology.  I was one of the first set of teachers that started the integration of technology into the classroom.  I was also part of the first TIF Training groups to train teachers.  It was while I was there that I met my beautiful wife.

Life was going so well until… in 2005 I got the coaching bug.  I took on the head football position back at my hometown of Happy.  Again I had 6 preps, the same I had at Three Way, the same coaching responsibilities, but I added two more hats, technology director and Gifted and Talented coordinator.  We were the district champs for two of the three years; we were three games away from a state football championship for two of the three years; and three games away from a state basketball championship for two of the three years that I was at Happy.  In the 2007-2008 school years, I saw two of the most drastic personal events that have ever happened to me. First; two weeks after the end of the football season, we had our first child Ava.  She has been a blessing.  The second was that on the same night that we lost on a lost second shot to be put us out of the basketball play-off, my dad, my biggest fan, passed with cancer.  I was devastated and wanted to get as far away from there as I could.  My wife being from Georgia, we tried to make a move there, however, the teaching / economic situation that Texas is facing now, was happening there and I was unable to get a teaching position. In my job search, I found two positions that I was over qualified for, but because I lacked a master’s degree, the doors were closed to me.  Because of a sudden emergency heath situation of a teacher at Hartley ISD, I took a position as the social studies teacher / coach / Ag teacher.  Here the superintendent, a previous principal of mine, suggested to me that I take the technology applications test for certification.  Knowing the present position would be concluded at the end of the school year, I interviewed with Amarillo ISD about my current teaching position, teaching digital media / tech support at Bowie Middle School.