First Quarter 2025 Report

Updates

In the first quarter of 2025, we upgraded to a faster server to improve site speed and reliability. Visitors to The Dock will notice improved search results and speed with fewer timeouts.

While The Dock School Leader podcast does not have a large audience we are seeing steady growth in monthly listeners. Many of our first releases continue to receive attention indicating that the content is valuable enough for multiple listens or our subscribers are going back through the released episodes and listening to the ones they missed.

In the next few months, we will be uploading recordings from Faith Builders Teachers Week, REACH 2022, Teacher Inspiration Day (TID), Western Fellowship Teachers Institute (WFTI), and other events.

New content

• Blog posts added: 12
• Audio and video sessions uploaded: 14
• Video views (YouTube and The Dock): 2,697

Traffic

Excluding the Microsoft practice documents, visits are up nearly 10% compared to the first quarter of 2024 (16,841 – 2025 versus 15,313 – 2024; +9.07%)

Aside from Office practice files, the top pages during this quarter were:

Documents

• Hinds Feet in High Places Worksheets
• Blank Check Images
• Monochromatic Landscape Art Lessons

Blog posts

• The Last Words of Nokseng: The Story Behind “I Have Decided”
• The Motivation Mystery
• Book Review: The Anxious Generation

Audio and video

• Naughty Students, Naughty Parents, and Naughty Teachers!
• The Danger of Verbatim Education
• I’m a Music Teacher. Now What Do I Do?

Financial Report

Fiscal Year-to-date summary (July 2024 – March 2025)

	Year to date	Budget	% of Budget
Income	$30,241	$41,000	64.00%
Expenses	$37,363	$41,000	91.74%
Net Income	($7,122)

Due to rounding, numbers may add up differently.

Expense Breakdown (January – March 2025)

Payroll	$9,067
Contract labor (blog posts, video editing, podcast host)	$1,952
Tech infrastructure	$376
Office expenses	$774
Total	$12,169

Due to rounding, numbers may add up differently.