Prioritizing your health

I've always prioritized my health.   

I still do it. 

When I wake up every day, I am thankful.

Then, I decide...When am I going to work out?  What does that look like?  How long do I have?  Do I really want to work out hard, or do I want to play Pickleball for 2 hours?  

Today, I did a quick leg workout, jump rope, and some plyometrics between sessions with clients at Lifetime.  

I am 62, so it all looks different now than it did back in the day.  

I'm helping this amazing human being return to prioritizing her health as she retires from an epic career.   

I am thankful for the opportunity to do it.  

I am careful with her.   

She is just two years older than I am, but because she has not always prioritized herself and her health, I want to get her where she wants to be, one step at a time, without injuries.  

This is my next chapter.  

I've always prioritized my health, even as I ran a program of 350+ students in public schools as a choral music educator.  

I want to move as well as I can, as pain-free as I can, for as long as I can.  

That is what I want to help others do.  

I am loving this next chapter.  

Need a free Broadway Musical Unit for the end of the School Year?

Need a free Broadway Musical Theater Unit for the end of the school year?

This one is great!

You can test out my Broadway musical theater series that I have in my TPT store with this free lesson.  

This unit focuses on the musical Hairspray!   There are so many great lessons that come from the plot of this show, and the kids love watching the musical. As with all of my musical theater units, it is filled with activities that are interactive.  There are games. There are opportunities for singing, acting, writing and creation.  

Go and get it… And then consider purchasing some of the other units in my TPT store on Broadway Musical Theatre.  Leave a review!  It helps more teachers know the quality of the product, and it helps me help you better!

Mr. D- Creator of S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners on "The Choir Guys" Podcast

We had a blast talking about everything ranging from Pickleball to my "not so secret" past as an Aerobic Gymnast to the Olympics to solfege and sight singing!  

Blake Richter and Daniel Gutierrez are two delightful hosts of The Choir Guys podcast.  They love teaching middle and high school choir, and so did I before I retired and moved on to things like Pickleball and personal training!

One of my core missions in life is and has always been to help middle school teachers, and that is also what these two are doing with their podcast.

Listen to it here or wherever you get your podcasts!

Do you hate it when your admins and counselors dump children into your Choir Program?

Do you hate it when your admins and counselors dump children into your choir program mid-year?

We've got a solution for users of the S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners!

We officially introduced Pamela Weaver, of The Choir Room on TpT last night on Zoom.

She tells us all about the reasons she created the program and how to use it. We also learn about her donut obsession and how she starts the program to get "buy in" from every student.

The video begins at the 12-minute mark, and it includes an approximately 50 minute discussion of the Mastery Belt System for S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners created by Pamela Weaver of The Choir Room on TpT. She tells us the "what, the why and the how" of her new system that is sure to motivate your students to excitedly achieve the various concepts that students need to master to move toward the sight singing competency of each step of the program...and your admins will love it too. And another thing- When students get "dumped" into your program mid-year, you'll have exactly the tools you need to walk up to your counselor and say "We are setting this new student up for failure because the student is unable to do these things." Pamela provides the list in her lessons. It'll make it way easier for you to keep your program filled with students who are in the right class for their ability.

Sit down with a glass of your favorite beverage, and learn about this awesome new system that will enhance your experience using S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners while motivating your students to do their best.

Here is the link to the video.

Ask Mr. D and Pamela Weaver- Creator of The Mastery Belt System for the S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners- on Zoom!

Pamela Weaver from The Choir Room on TpT has created a new series called "The Mastery Belt System" specifically for use with the S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners.  

Her students love it (and so do her admins!). 

We will be on Zoom on 2/24/26 at 7 PM EST where we will learn what this supplemental program can add to your S-Cubed journey.  

Join Dale Duncan, from Music in the Middle with Mr. D on TpT, and Pamela Weaver, from The Choir Room on our free Zoom to learn more about what choir teachers are talking about!

Reserver your spot here on my Facebook page-  Click here.

I hope to meet you there!