Coach Burnett is a graduate of Sam Houston State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Kinesiology and a minor in Biology. He has been teaching since 2006. He started his career teaching IPC and coaching baseball at Nimitz High School in Aldine ISD. For the next seven years, he coached baseball and taught a variety of subjects such as IPC and Biology at Klein Collins HS in Spring, Texas. He currently teaches Resource English 3 & 4 at Plano Senior High. His wife Karen teaches at Clark High School. They have three children Trevor, Travis, and Kendall.