Mr. Hogan is a member of the educational staff at Tuscarora High-School. He is primarily known as the Orchestra Director, and the curator of the morning announcements. He has been the head of these positions for over 11 years. This was done mainly along with Mr. Karos who as of recently, moved on. However there are other positions that Mr. Hogan runs that most students, or even fellow teachers know about. 

He works on a wide variety of subjects, with some being music related as one might expect, yet there are others that do not involve music. For example, he offers a course named “pop,” where you learn the history and evolution of music as a whole. On the other side, last year he offered SAT prep, where kids study to prepare themselves for the SAT test. These courses conflict with each other heavily, and seem to showcase a wide skill-set that Mr. Hogan has acquired with his many years of working. In a recent interview, when asked how he balances the many different classes, “For me, because every class period is completely different, I start my day with an ensemble with orchestra, which is one very unique way of teaching, then I got guitar class which is a completely different ball game, and then I end with teaching the morning announcements which is all about producing something everyday.” 

“It’s a lot of extra plan(ing) because everything is completely different and there’s varying levels in every single class, but it’s nice to be able to completely change every couple hours or minutes, and I like that.” It truly goes to show not only how hard he works, but how much his experience and planning goes into his day. Mr. Hogan mentioned how extra-curriculars such as the band, the theater group and the soccer team go unnoticed by most students. Sometimes even overshadowed by other events like football. “The number one thing I would change about Tuscarora is student involvement. There’s so many good things that happen in this school, but the kid don’t support each other. When I look at the student section, our soccer section has been historically one of the best in the state for years and there’s hardly anyone there. Whereas you go to a band concert and it’s only people who’ve ever been a part of a band who are there (…) I feel like Tuscarora historically has never really established a culture where students go support other students doing things that doesn’t relate to them.”  As a final message from Mr. Hogan, “ I’d love to see students go support kids doing things they don’t do. Go to the active team stuff, go to the mock trial stuff, go to the sporting events, the music, the plays, go look at art in the hallways.”