THE HOGGATTEER REVOLUTION
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  • Orientation
    • Class Handbook
    • Families: The Wind Beneath Our Wings
    • Meet the Teacher
    • Place in the World
    • Teachers: File Cabinet
  • Positivity
    • Earn Your Wings
    • G.R.O.S.S.
    • Insightful Poetry
    • Inspirational Prose
    • Meaningful Quotes
    • Positive Behavior Conversations
  • Exploration
    • Celebrate Good Times (Come On)
    • Cerebral Cinema >
      • Hoggatt-Made Videos
      • Mood Music
      • Music Appreciation
      • Positive Behavior Conversations
    • Coursework >
      • Cultivating America
      • Focus on Science
      • Let's Communicate
      • M4+HEM4+1C5
      • Missouri, USA
      • Recess Bell
      • Scripture Studies

Believe It or Not!

​Need to know more about Mr. Hoggatt?

The following information is ALL TRUE.
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Childhood

BORN IN OKLAHOMA CITY ON AUGUST 25, 1965
 ​Had two girlfriends at age three
 ​Once solved Rubik’s Cube in 23 seconds
Lived on a farm
WORN GLASSES SINCE THIRD GRADE
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​Attended a two-room schoolhouse
Read 418 books in first grade
Won second place in fourth grade spelling bee
WAS A CUB SCOUT
Was a “dolphin” at the YMCA
Took gymnastics classes
Learned shorthand in high school

People with whom I've Been in the Same Room

Whitney Houston
MICHAEL BOLTON
​Barry Manilow

Barry Williams
Kenny Rogers
ALABAMA
Barbara Mandrell
Oak Ridge Boys
Reba McEntire
Porter Wagoner
Lee Greenwood
AIR SUPPLY
Ray Stevens
​Rip Taylor
​Robert Goulet
Bill Cosby
ROBERT BALLARD
Oliver North

Ed Asner
Natalie Cole
James Brown
John Glenn
JIMMY CARTER
Don Adams
​Dave Matthews​
Kid President
GEORGE W. BUSH​
​David Copperfield
​Grandpa Jones
"Nick" Clifford, an original Mount Rushmore carver
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Brad Pitt’s babysitter
​​George H.W. Bush (also drove behind his motorcade)
Had conversations with Bob Hope twice
ATE LUNCH WITH MARILYN MONROE
Received money from Pam Anderson
Shook hands with Sam Walton's daughter
​DISNEY VICE PRESIDENTS AND IMAGINEERS
Alton Fitzgerald White, Lion King's "Mufasa" in over 4,000 performances

Animals

Dislike cats
OWNED A TURTLE THAT DANCED TO MUSIC
Had a pet raccoon
Had a pet brahma bull
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Freed a wild possum from a running clothes dryer
RODE A CAMEL AND AN ELEPHANT
Had a pet Gopher
Bottle fed a dolphin calf
Was a beekeeper
Wrestled a full-grown African lioness
HERDED AMERICAN BUFFALO ON FOOT
Skinned 700 pounds of catfish without a break
Played with a black bear, mountain lion, and timber wolf
Regularly fed a timber rattlesnake
Freed a wild possum from a running clothes dryer
Rode a camel and an elephant
SOLD GERBILS WHOLESALE
Swam with dolphins and tropical fish

I Survived

House fire during youth
The April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City Bombing and wrote a book about it
THE MAY 22, 2011, EF5 JOPLIN TORNADO AND WROTE A BOOK ABOUT IT
The CVD-19 pandemic of 2020 (so far)

Family

Married on Tuesday, December 17, 1991
Have one daughter and one son
Parents married since 1963
Brother has spent time in a women’s prison
GRANDMOTHER TAUGHT FOURTH GRADE
Grandmother born in Indian Territory
Grandmother was topic of David Letterman monologue joke
Related to Red Skelton
Related to President James Buchanan,
RELATED TO JOHN WAYNE
Related to Missouri's General Omar Bradley
Grandpa raised racehorses
Grandpa built his own personal computer

Church

Full time Christian
PREACHED ON THE RADIO
Lead singing in worship
Read the Bible from cover to cover
Preached for churches in Roff, Chickasha, and Grove, OK
PREACHED FOR CHURCHES IN COLUMBUS AND FT. SCOTT, KS
Preached in Joplin, Greenfield, Nevada, Spring City, and Washburn, MO

On the Job

Enjoy creative writing
Wore overalls to state teachers convention

Enjoy public speaking
Was manager and education director for outdoor family park
RECEIVED ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SERVICE AND SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Worked as a school custodian​​
Owned a small town newspaper
Was offered a management position at Silver Dollar City
Worked for the United States Air Force
WAS TOUR GUIDE AT A SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
​Drove solar-powered vehicles
Global Moderator for an Internet Forum
Screen-tested finalist for a national television show, July 2014
WROTE FOUR BOOKS OF MIDDLE-GRADE FICTION

Performing Arts

Sang and danced in Disney's Frozen the Musical at Disney World
Played drums in high school and college
​Grand Marshall in Magic Kingdom parade
Performed on Grand Ole Opry stage
Won awards for public speaking
WAS IN A BAND WITH ELVIS PRESLEY'S TRUMPET PLAYER
Performed in Annie, Get Your Gun and If a Man Answers
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​Danced with Sioux Indians
WORKED ON STAGE FOR THE NATIONALLY-TOURING MUSICAL, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Voiced commercials for radio and television​
Performed in community theater in two states, including at Joplin Little Theatre
ATTENDED TOURING PERFORMANCE OF CATS
Attended touring performance of Annie
Attended touring performance of Beauty and the Beast
Attended touring performance of Peter Pan
Attended touring performance of Camelot
Attended touring performance of The Lion King (twice)
SAW JAMES DOOHAN​
Attended touring performance of Cinderella
Was guest on Living Well
Was guest on Local News Today
Was guest on Good Morning Four States
PLAYED DRUMS FOR PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
​Saw costumes from Wizard of Oz, Lincoln, Batman, and other movies
Saw props from Twister, Men in Black, Harry Potter, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea​, and other movies

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Sports?

Enjoy playing table tennis
DO NOT LIKE TEAM SPORTS​​
​​High bowling score was 232
Own a pair of boxing gloves
Invented “Wacky Bowling"

Things I've Touched

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral wagon
Original telegraph pole from the 1860s
500-YEAR-OLD DUGOUT CANOE
The moon
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Pieces of the 1817 White House
​A 1742 British musket
A 1795 surgeon's powder horn
COMMISSION PAPERS OF THE MARQUIS DE LOTBINIÈR,
​SIGNED BY KING LOUIS XIV

1731 book, printed in Nuremberg, describing the design of star forts
Cannon acquired by Henry Knox
George Washington's stair rail
Andrew Jackson's stair rail
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S STAIR RAIL
The Alamo
Almonzo Wilder's cobbler anvil
The Berlin Wall
Blast windows from Mission Control (Apollo launches)
CONTROL PANEL FROM HOUSTON MISSION CONTROL
"Dorothy II" prop from Twister
Susan Lucci’s, Hillary Duff’s, and LL Cool J’s sleeves
Pieces of the truck that carried the Oklahoma City bomb



Concerning History

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Spent the night in a facility owned by original seven astronauts
Spent a week (around the clock) on George Washington's estate
SAW SANTA ANNA'S LEG​
Saw Abraham Lincoln's Blood
Santa Fe Trail (road in a covered wagon)
Saw William Clark's sword
Saw George Washington's sword
SAW DANIEL BOONE'S RIFLE
Watched sunrises from George Washington’s piazza
​Potomac River (watched a bald eagle fly over)
Prayed amidst the enslaved burials at Mount Vernon
Sang the national anthem at George Washington's tomb 
STOOD ON THE DECK OF A CIVIL WAR BATTLESHIP
Spent a week at Fort Ticonderoga
Saw Lord Howe
Floated La Chute River in a bateau in a thunderstorm
SAW GEORGE WASHINGTON'S TEETH
​Saw Apollo XIII
Saw Yuri Gagarin's capsule & uniform from 1st manned space flight
​Saw Jimmy Carter's high chair


I Was There

Stood atop of the Missouri capitol dome
Walked under Nixon's Air Force One plane on the ground
SAW TWO WASHINGTON MONUMENTS
Went underground in two gold mines and one salt mine
Stood atop the highest point in Missouri
Walked Main Street USA at Magic Kingdom when the Magic Kingdom was closed

Visited Silver Dollar City when it was closed
​Went backstage at Silver Dollar City's Opera House
SPENT THE NIGHT OUTSIDE THE DFW AIRPORT

Visited Antique Archeology (owned by Mike Wolfe of American Pickers)
Played on the field at OU’s Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
Dances with Wolves, National Treasure, and National Treasure 2 locations
Visited EPCOT when it was closed
Went "backstage" at the Magic Kingdom and EPCOT
RODE
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY:  COSMIC REWIND ON OPENING DAY WITH THE IMAGINEER WHO DESIGNED THE ATTRACTION
Been to seven Disney parks
Been to two Universal Studios
VISITED FOUR SEA WORLD PARKS
Visited three Six Flags parks

Gravesites Visited

Harry S Truman
Abraham Lincoln
ANDREW JACKSON
Geronimo
Susan Elizabeth Blow
Henry T. Blow

​​Enslaved people at Mount Vernon
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Martha Washington
William Clark
​George Rogers Clark

Revolutionary soldiers
CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS

The Law

Spent time in an FBI jail
Fingerprinted by the Joplin Police
FINGERPRINTED BY THE CARL JUNCTION POLICE
Fingerprinted by the FBI
Fingerprinted by the Missouri Highway patrol
Rode in police car and an ambulance
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Teaching

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Disney's 50 Teachers Celebration, 2022
2021 MISSOURI HISTORY TEACHER OF THE YEAR
2021 semi-finalist, National History Teacher of the Year
Master Teacher for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Led six-week virtual National Parks History Camp for over 100 students nationwide
Wrote lessons for the Lincoln Presidential Foundation
Recognized, 2021 Joplin Globe H.O.O.T. award
Was adjunct instructor at Missouri Southern State University
Nominated 3 times, Teacher of the Year, Buchanan Elementary, Oklahoma City
2001 nominee, Presidential Award for Excellence
in Mathematics and Science Teaching

SELECTED FOR 2022 COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG TEACHER INSTITUTE
​Graduated from Tuttle High School in 1983
Graduated University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
Bachelor of Arts in Communication in 1985
Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education in 1990
GRADUATE DEAN'S SCHOLAR WITH 4.0 AVERAGE
Wife graduated from University of Central Oklahoma
Oklahoma City Schools grant winner
Have taught all grades
TAUGHT SINCE 1990

Taught brother of an American Idol contestant
Taught wife of a contestant on ​The Voice
Taught nephew of The Bachelor
Taught at a “Segregated Negro High School”
INTERVIEWED AT CECIL FLOYD DURING A TORNADO WARNING
$1000 KOAM Outstanding Class Video Award
Past President, Joplin Teachers Association
Member, Missouri State Teachers Association
Masters Degree in Teaching from Pittsburg State University in 1999
WROTE CURRICULUM FOR JOPLIN SCHOOLS
Coached the Cecil Floyd M4+H LE46UE
Supervised scoring of MAP test for the state
Served on Joplin Schools Strategic Planning Committee
Worked for 12 principals in 3 schools in 2 districts (not counting summer school and assistant principals)
PRESENT TEACHER WORKSHOPS AT THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVELS

Was Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) senior leader
Served on Teacher of the Year Committee, Joplin Schools
Wrote two teacher guide books
2001/5 nominee, Disney’s American Teacher Awards
2002 PDK/KODE Excellent Educational Program Award
2004 GOLDEN APPLE AWARD RECIPIENT
2004/5 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
2005/6 Joplin Schools Teacher of the Year
2005/6 candidate, Missouri Teacher of the Year
Mentored, Technology Leadership Academy
Served on state Social Studies and Math assessment committees
AWARD-WINNING CLASSROOM WEBSITE
Taught a Cecil Floyd teacher
Masters Degree in Teaching from Pittsburg State University in 1999
Wrote curriculum for Joplin Schools
WAS CURRICULUM INSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIST, JOPLIN SCHOOLS
Served on Joplin Schools Salary, Dropout, Salary, Calendar, Textbook Selection, Teacher of the Year, and Superintendent's Advisory Committees
Taught at Cecil Floyd Elementary longer than any teacher currently on staff
HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR ALL STUDENTS
Retired after 32 years of teaching in America's public schools


Miscellaneous

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LIVED IN 24 STATES AND 3 COUNTRIES
Lived in Joplin area since 1995
​Have seasonal allergies
Don’t gamble, smoke, curse, or drink alcoholic beverages
Never taken illegal drugs
NEVER TASTED COFFEE
Do not have a favorite color
​Voted in every presidential election since 1984
Own a registered copyright
Have a Joplin Public Library card
ATE LUNCH WITH A HOMELESS MAN


Money

Paid $800 for first car
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​Saw $4,000,000
LIFTED $400,000.00 GOLD BAR (27 LBS.)

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