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The Davises are a husband and wife team who specialize in classroom management and education efficiency methods. Jon's Experience: Jon is a Middle School ELA and Creative Writing teacher and the 2023 and 2024 Middle School Teacher of the Year for his school district. He is also certified to teach Social Studies, Civics, and Geography 6-12, as well as Business, Econ, and Technology. Prior to education, his specialty was in business management is a Marine Corps Iraq veteran. His focus is on classroom systems to help promote active student leadership, increasing efficiency for teachers, maximizing time spent teaching over disciplining, and minimizing the administrative load on educators at every level. Jon began in education in 2013. Jennie's Experience: Jennie is her school's 2018 Teacher of the Year. She is a second-generation teacher, working as an educator himself since 2013. She has worked in a wide variety of classroom environments including majority ESL students, Title 1 schools, high-income school districts, Behavior Intervention Special Education, Gifted and Talent, and leads her school's robotics team. She currently is a happy 4th Grade Science Teacher. Her diverse experiences have given her a specialty in classroom management techniques to aid teachers in doing their jobs.

Jennie balances fun and learning with a strict and orderly classroom. She's always on her feet to give as much individual attention to all her students. She focuses on utilizing new technologies and innovative techniques to give her students the unique advantage of a modern educator. Jon's teaching style combines the use of classroom teams to empower and motivate students to lead their peers, as well as creative disciplines designed to improve student behavior through character building. He educates through project-based learning, and uses extensive technology tools he developed and shares to help manage his unique classroom.

Jon is the 2023 and 2024 Dickson Middle School Teacher of the Year Jennie is the 2018 Marietta Elementary's Teacher of the Year In 2021, following the chaos of COVID-19, Jon's innovative Teams and Themes system went viral as a solution to student behavior challenges. He's been sharing his methods online ever since.

Jennie received her education degree from Texas Women's University in Denton, Texas. While her husband was in the military, she worked through five separate colleges in three states (which she is all certified in!) She began as an educator at the age of 5, teaching lessons to stuffed animals and other teacher kids in her mother's kindergarten class. Her first recognized teaching position was as a Teacher's Aide for in the Behavior Intervention Class at Lewisville Independent Schools in Lewisville, TX. There, she managed the education of many of the most severe and profound needs of a district with over 100,000 children. Following this, she became a traditional teacher taking over a 3rd Grade classroom in Oklahoma. She has taught 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade and specializes in teaching Reading and Science. Jon began teaching in an unconventional place... the United States Marine Corps. There, his high marksmanship scores landed him a role as his squadron's rifle and pistol coach. From there, he discovered a love of bringing out the best in others through conveying his knowledge. After receiving an Honorable Discharge from the Marines, he received a management degree from the University of North Texas. After realizing he preferred war to work in the corporate world, Jon attempted other roads. He began teaching in 2013 as a substitute teacher. His classroom management was such that he was hired full-time to oversee the school's In School Detention program teaching some of the biggest and most colorful students years (I'm speaking in euphemism, but I honestly loved the job. If you can manage their behavior and manage yours, it's the easiest job the school provides.) He taught in the ISD for three years before becoming a traditional classroom teacher. His focus is teaching English Language Arts and Creative Writing in the Middle School Setting.

We've been married since we were 18. That's right. We graduated high school and two weeks later we were married. A week after that I (Jon) was in bootcamp. After two tours to Iraq and several cross country moves we left the military life and went on to finish our education. Now we have finished that chapter of our life and moved back to our hometown in Oklahoma and both happily in education. We have two daughters, Gabi and Ava, and a very annoying dog. When not at work, Jennie scrapbooks the many adventures life has thrown our way, and Jon likes to write.