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.

There is an old Chinese curse that says “May you live in interesting times!” Well if that is a true curse then we are really cursed these days!

School Assemblies play every day of the school year, so on any given day we have performers all over the country performing school shows.

As the largest company in the country producing educational school assemblies and school shows, Mobile Ed Productions sends school assembly performers to a lot of places all over the country. Our stalwart school show performers log a huge number of miles every year, and like the Post Office, they travel through every kind of weather and road condition you can imagine. Well, almost...

School assemblies today? Forget it! The weatherman promised an inch of snow last night for South East Michigan schools, but he was wrong. Michigan schools in the lower peninsula awoke this morning to as much as a foot of snow. A foot of snow! It was over the bumper of my car! Now, being that today is Presidents Day, many schools are closed anyway, but some were scheduled to be open. Not anymore! Ohio schools, Michigan schools, Indiana schools ... schools from Texas to Pennsylvania are all closed today!

We recently announced a special “deal” on Lights, Camera, Action for Midwest schools looking for something exciting to do with their kids after testing in May. We are offering a special price on the program, reducing the regular price from $695 to $595. Now we are extending the offer to also include schools on the East Coast and dates in April as well as May!

School assemblies are great for putting into a palatable and entertaining form current issues that kids need to know about. In Ohio and Indiana, some of our schools are doing just that! 

April Showers Bring May School Assemblies, or something like that... more like January snow brings a longer school year. This winter has been tough and a lot of school districts are facing the prospect of a longer school year in order to make up the lost time. Sadly, in many cases, with the extra days thrown in at the end of the year it does not help schools prepare for testing which occurs in most states in the Spring. By May and June testing is usually done. School are looking for things to do. And with a longer school year, in some areas stretching into nearly the end of June, there is a lot of time to fill. 

Just a reminder! It is the middle of February and the last thing you want to think about is school assemblies for next year, but.... just like taxes, you have to do it!