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Placing each puzzle piece one at a time: Every puzzle in life has a solution if can figure out the pieces.
Bird Droppings July 15, 2026Placing each puzzle piece one at a time: Every puzzle in life has a solution if can figure out the pieces. “Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How many times are we told, “take your time”? So often in…
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Why not continue the Journey? Freire and Foxfire both start with F’s.
Bird Droppings July 14, 2026Why not continue the Journey? Freire and Foxfire both start with F’s. “So I’d much rather get across the concept of freedom. It’s what’s important to Indian children. The only way you can be free is to know that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being. Otherwise you become what…
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Can we find learning in the Kalahari Desert?
Bird Droppings July 13, 2026 Can we find learning in the Kalahari Desert? While out driving this morning, I pulled over along the nearby dirt road, taking pictures of wildflowers and grasshoppers, among other things I find worth pondering. I spent several minutes trying to photograph a seed from a broom sage plant floating along…
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High Stakes Testing and/or Inspection: Does it work?
Bird Droppings July 12, 2026 High Stakes Testing and/or Inspection: Does it work? About twenty-four years ago, I recall we spent several months preparing for a peer review; it was called a GAPPS Review. About the same time, you throw in the Georgia High School Graduation retests, the PSAT, and the End of Course tests…
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Can I teach myself, or am I even allowed?
Bird Droppings July 11, 2026 Can I teach myself, or am I even allowed? “There is then, nothing final about a logical rendering of experience. Its value is not contained in itself; its significance is that of standpoint, outlook, and method. It intervenes between the more casual, tentative, and roundabout experiences of the past, and…
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Is it not an Emerson day?
Bird Droppings July 7, 2026 Is it not an Emerson day? Last night I was extremely tired after not getting much sleep the previous night, yard work, graduate schoolwork, and cooking supper for everyone. About fourteen years ago, while I was sitting and writing, my wife called me to see the sunset, which was gorgeous.…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 