So you suddenly find yourself in the position of needing a school assembly. Oh, no! What do you do?

Every day of the school year, from early September through late June, our wonderful school assembly presenters are working in schools and bringing knowledge and fun to kids all over the country. Performing school assemblies in Ohio one week and in Kentucky the next, or doing school shows in New Jersey today and Pennsylvania the next, and then on to Texas or California, our guys (and girls!) travel the country like educational troubadours. It is a grinding way of life, and not for the weak or fragile.

I have written several times in the past about one of our great school assembly performers Dave Mitchell. He presents our wonderful Ben Franklin school assembly as well as school assemblies on Math and Reading. Well, Dave is hard at work on a brand new program for next year, and yet found himself growing pensive about how and why we do the school assemblies that we do. He jotted down a few thoughts recently, and I thought I would share them with you.

So what do Green Bay, Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Dallas, Texas all have in common? The 2011 Superbowl, right? Well, yes, of course! But something else, too. Mobile Ed visits schools in all three places to perform school assemblies.! There, now you knew that, right? :-)

I have spoken before about Rojo, one of our great school assembly performers, but this came across my desk today and I had to share it with you.

Normally I write about school assemblies and school shows, as school assembly programs make up the lion’s share of our business. Mobile Ed Productions was, after all, founded to help educate children through entertaining and educational school assemblies.

"What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet..." Yes, Shakespeare said it best, as always. But in the world of school assemblies, names can be quite confusing.

All over the midwest school assemblies were canceled today as heavy snow and ice forced schools to close for the day. And that’s a shame! Just ask any kid. The worst time for a snow day (not that most kids will ever admit that there is a bad time!) is when you are supposed to have a cool school assembly program that day instead of class. 

OK, it’s my own fault, I admit it. The last few weeks my son, daughter and wife were all sick. First my wife caught a cold/cough thing, then my daughter got it, then my son came home with some kind of 48 hour flu bug. All the while I rolled along feeling just fine. I got cocky, too. 

Travel is a regular part of the life of a school assembly performer. Professional presenters of school assemblies are regularly “on the road”, and these "road warriors" often rack up huge amounts of miles during the course of a normal school year. One presenter of ours who does not usually travel as often or as far, is our wonderful “Dr Exhaustus” himself, Jeff Hoge. Jeff is resident in Chicago and regularly performs in schools all around northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, with his own program on the environment, “Our Changing Climate” as well as with our creative writing school assembly program “Young Authors Day”. In addition, during the winter, Jeff handles our Living Lincoln assembly program.