Welcome to my website! A little about me: My name is Brandon Maglione. Everyone, unless they're native Italian, mispronounces my name. So here's some phonetic help: it's pronounced Mal-yon-é (short accent) in Italian, but most pronounce it Mal-ee-yon-ee. It means "sweater" in Italian. Like, the article of clothing, not what you become when you go outside on a typical summer's day in Georgia.
I'm currently in my 16th year teaching, but I've been in the field of professional education since 2001. Before being in education professionally, during my Junior and Senior years at East Paulding High, I took what was then called the Teacher Apprentice Program, now called Teaching as a Profession. At 19 years old, I started in the field as a substitute teacher in Paulding County and eventually in Cobb County, while going to Kennesaw State University for my degree in Secondary English Education.
I graduated from Kennesaw State in May of 2005, then went out of the country (Italy for a couple weeks, and then Oaxaca Mx. for about six months). When I returned to the States, I picked back up substitute teaching and then I was offered a position as a Paraprofessional at Hiram High, a Title I school, working within the Autism classroom. The following year, I continued working with the Special Education Department as a teacher in a Severe Emotional and Behavioral Disorder classroom until 2008. I moved to West Palm Beach, Florida in 2009 to take a teaching job at Inlet Grove Community High, a Title I Charter School. I taught English to seniors and freshmen there until 2011. I then went to Palm Beach Gardens High School, also a Title I school, where I ran the gamut: I was an interim Reading teacher for 2011/2012, then moved to Lit. classes for 9th - 12th grades. I taught there until 2015.
In the summer of 2015, my lovely wife and I moved back to Paulding County, where I was a supply teacher at North Paulding and other P.C. schools for the 2015-2016 school year. I began full time at North in 2016 and ended it in 2024. During that time I attained my Specialist degree in counseling, and one of my immediate goals is to get into school counseling! For 2024/2025 I have begun the next chapter of my career in Kennesaw Mountain High School, and I look forward to this new horizon! Let's make this a great year together! Room 1213 email: [email protected]